and another thing

[topaz]

This is at least partly related to spending the evening watching a Michael Moore movie, but I am so fucking angry about the Scooter Libby business I can't see straight.  Holy hell am I mad.  I could just about eat a battleship and shit staples.

I think one of the things that's most infuriating is that we have such a gutless, spineless, Democratic leadership in Congress, it's practically guaranteed that nothing is going to happen.  Pelosi's chair was barely warm before she announced that impeachment was off the table.  (The Huffington Post is urging you to make her put it back on the table.  That number is 202-225-0100, folks.  And MoveOn has one of their endless petitions in play to support impeachment, if you like signing MoveOn petitions.)

Our House rep, Marty Meehan, is vacating his seat this fall and it's up for grabs.  The first candidate who says they support impeaching this motherfucker will get my vote.  For that matter, they may well get me to quit my job and go to work on their campaign.

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[approximator.livejournal.com]

I think that commuting Libby's sentence was wrong. That said, I'm not sure that it is a horrible miscarriage of justice. My problem is that the when combined with the other questionable things that the administration may have done, that precedents are being set that may have a radical effect on the Justice system and the Executive Branch(in a bad way) . The secrecy, the executive orders and the political appointees in the Justice Dept.
Then when you combine those things with radically bad foreign policy and bad domestic energy policy among others, I keep thinking that someone is trying to cause the end of the world so that they can be called to their lord in heaven. I hope this is just an emotional response that will be balanced by an eventual national shift to the left. Another concern is that most of the political media is controlled by conservatives and they (conservatives) don't need control of the executive branch to shaft progressive policies. It may take a century of hard work (or longer) from progressives and bad conservative policy to achieve a truly liberal society, with justice for all. Or maybe never.
Libby is small potatoes now, he has been the lightning rod and has provided some cover. Now he'll be taken care of as we all knew he would be, with a 6-8 figure salary and the benefits of the commercial executive class. When the president leaves office, he will be pardoned (unless he gets a conscience and confesses his perfidy (relating to his duty as a civil servant not his duty to the current administration), then he won't get squat).
Well, yeah. I guess I'm pissed, too. sorry about all the parenthetical comments.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Then when you combine those things with radically bad foreign policy and bad domestic energy policy among others, I keep thinking that someone is trying to cause the end of the world so that they can be called to their lord in heaven.

They are. They're called Dominionists.