Update [2007-3-8 17:29:50 by BooMan]: Apparently, Michael Barone didn’t write this. His site was hacked.
Michael Barone is a very conservative political analyst, frequent FOX News guest, and columnist for the U.S. News & World Report. So it is a little illuminating to see him come right out and call the Bush administration what it is: brazenly criminal. Barone is reacting to the improper firing of eight U.S. Attorneys and, specifically, the actions of Senator Pete Domenici.
The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorneys should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruption in the Bush administration.
When a U.S. senator (to wit, Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican) feels free to call a prosecutor at home and hang up on him for resisting political pressure in the course of executing his prosecutorial duties, the line between politics and law enforcement has been so thoroughly violated that it no longer exists…
…Domenici would not have made that call had either a Democrat or a law-abiding Republican been in the White House. He would not have had the temerity to throw his weight around to such an outrageous extent.
What’s going on in Washington is not sufficiently removed from the routine doings of a tawdry Third World dictatorship to give any American comfort.
I wonder if Michael Barone thinks that impeachment is a unserious response to having a non law-abiding Republican in the White House.
It’s like we’re all itinerant ranch hands on Bush’s ranch in Crawford.
Wow, that’s significant! After a while there is only so much one can ignore or gloss over…or help them spin. Good news.
Remember it’s never the underlying organization that’s at fault, just a “few bad apples”. So it wasn’t the Army that was responsible for Abu Ghraib and it’s not the Republican Party that’s responsible for the present administration – just a few bad apples.
The conservatives who gleefully hijacked the party in the 1990’s are now trying to cut lose before they get dragged down by the never ending scandals. I don’t think it will work. Rove is a Republican operative. Gingrich is a Republican operative. DeLay is a Republican operative. Grover Norquist and those pulling the strings can try to minimize the connections between the party and the ideologues but I doubt the public will understand the fine distinctions they are trying to create.
They are so desperate that even Limbaugh no longer calls himself a Republican.
It’s not at all removed, it’s the very same thing.
Sen.Domenici thought saying those prosecutions are important remember the lessons of 9/11. would get the job done…but scare tactics no longer work…probecito
into Arlen Specter’s authorship of this provision in the Patriot Act regarding interim appointments of US attorneys absent the confirmation hearing normally required of nominees would be interesting, no?
Just how, exactly, does this make America safer, Senator?
Then I want to throw out every damn Congresstype who voted to extend the Patriot Act. Obviously, before voting, they did not read the bill, because they are not possessed of sufficient reading comprehension skill (in the off chance any of them did survey it) to be minimally qualified for federal legislative office.
I have to admit that this:
sent my radar into overdrive. I’m not surprised to learn that he wasn’t the original author.