With a lot of Democratic enablers involved I don't know if we'll EVER see full disclosure of the heinous abuse of power this administration pulled for 8 years. It is beyond me why Pelosi and Reid still hold leadership positions. Who exactly do they have pictures of in compromising situations 
makes ya wonder kinda, doesn't it?
The simple answer, of course, is that no one is above the law.
The people have spoken by voting for change and accountability. Maybe now, with new people in the Justice Department, Pelosi, Reid, and the other enablers really will do what they have been elected to do: the will of the people.
Maybe many Americans feel that we lost all of our honor? You don't bother to protest when you feel you were part of the problem?
I think we all realize that it's time to get over such self-indulgence and start righting what was wronged. The voters took the first step in November by booting out as many of the Far Right conservative doorknobs as we could.
Obama seems to have taken the next step by stating he will end all of the Bush administration's abuse of power policies pronto when taking office. I love the idea he had of appointing a Chief Auditor to go in and disclose all of the dirty laundry.
You can't create a new wardrobe without weeding out all the out-of-date corruption and throwing it on a pile to be discarded...after everyone looks at it and agrees the necessity for change.
I look forward to finding out the truth no matter how bad it is.
Speaking of wardrobes:
The Emperor's New Clothes 2.0 that was the Bush 43 administration generates as much stunning incredulity for its blatant Orwellian Newspeak bullshit quotient than for the actual deeds themselves so ably performed by the neo-con goon squad in the names of Profit and Power. It suggests not mere political obfuscation or slick sleight of hand practiced by pickpockets working a crowd at a carny but the existence of an actual survival technique practiced by the über-wealthy and über-powerful: the creation of individually tailored truths, codes of behavior that have little to do with traditionally disseminated rules for peaceful coexistence by which the smaller, less affluent, less powerful, less important people live.
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George Bush offers us wistful admissions of fallibility, as if that will assuage his despicable, destructive reign. He trusts that the little people themselves will not want to reflect on the damage so he, magnanimous god that he is, does it for us. But if, after all the celebration fades and an Obama government takes its turn there is no legal and/or highly visible reckoning of BushCo's treasonous, historic misdeeds then we are the ones in serious need of reflection.
I don't always consider that the free market is the best answer to anything, but in this case I'm pretty sure we will learn a great deal from the coming 'kiss and tell' books. Scott McLellan's was just the first of many.
Fail CEOs get a "get out of bail free" card, the country gets the fine.
Gives a new meaning to the term "free market" when the heads of companies run things into the ground and the taxpayers get stuck bailing their arses out, doesn't it?
I don't think you quite got what I was saying.
What I meant was, we will learn a lot over the next year as supposedly 'loyal' Bush administration officials turn on each other and spill the beans in an effort to 1) make some money writing a book, and 2) dodge their share of the blame by pinning it on others first.
All the stuff we wish had been given in testimony before congressional committees, we will learn in books from people willing to sell out their 'C-in-C' to make a buck. Scott McLellan was just the first, of probably several.
That's what I meant by the free market may work for us, at least in terms of uncovering the crimes of the Bush administration. Who knows, I might even buy somebody's book, if it's juicy enough.
I'm sorry. You're right -- I got stuck at the "free market" thing and didn't go on to the "ratting out for fun and profit" thing.
The ones who really know the truth will be too afraid to tell it without being indicted.
How do you like the current Cheney and Bush Nuremberg strategy of admitting they authorized torture but that their lawyers told them it was legal?
I think that strategy is a load of BS. Just like everything else they've done.
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