Think about it: In yesterday's post about Rove, Billmon
writes:
Looking back, it's obvious the Rovians didn't regard the original Justice Department probe as a serious legal threat -- no more than the Nixon White House regarded the original FBI investigation of Watergate as a serious threat. The Rovians must have thought the fix was in with Ashcroft, just as Nixon thought that his man L. Patrick Gray (recently departed for the infernal regions) would plug the cracks in his criminal conspiracy.
The Fitzgerald investigation is the first substantive inquiry
not controlled by Republicans, and with legal power.
For most of the recent past, the commissions and congressional probes have been Republican-controlled (and the 'bi-partisan' ones configured by Bush). If the Democrats had,
today, a majority in either the House or Senate, they could get the subpoena machine running and it's likely that Bush would be in total defense mode. But that's not the case.
Still, given that Fitzgerald has been able to get so close to the top of the pyramid, one wonders what else is out there.
posted by Quiddity at 7/12/2005 03:26:00 PM
Let's face it - Gonsalez is Bush's bitch. He'll lick Bush's hand and pay more attention to "party loyalty" than defending the Constitution.
They would screw it up just like they screwed up Iran-Contra. Democrats are experts at shooting themselves in the foot and self-castrating. I'm writing this as a disappointed liberal who wishes he had a better "realistic" alternative than the current Democratic party.
and speaking of jeffords, wouldn't it have been better if he had remained a republican? if he had, wouldn't he now be able to request a hearing on this and the downing street memos?
