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.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the executive powers enumerated in the Constitution do not include granting political favors to a convicted felon in exchange for his refusing to provide evidence against the commander in chief.

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

You would be pretty wrong, then.

Morally, you are correct; legally you are wrong. If we change the law every time we are morally outraged, or every time a power is exercised in a repugnant manner, we will soon end up with the very utterly arbitrary, winner-take-all government we are supposedly angry about right now.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

Seconded.