Bush, Out of Office, Could Oppose Inquiries - NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — When a Congressional committee subpoenaed Harry S. Truman in 1953, nearly a year after he left office, he made a startling claim: Even though he was no longer president, the Constitution still empowered him to block subpoenas.
You may be very certain that when the pendulum swings back - as it will, and sooner than you think - we will drag everybody from Barack Hussein Obama to the lowliest Acorn White House intern into the dock for endless investigations as as much jail time as can be arranged.
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The problem with criminalizing your political opposition is that once you head down that road, you can never afford to risk losing an election again. If the Obama Admin starts bringing criminal charges against Bush Admin personnel for political stuff, you’d better believe there won’t be a real election again until the mob torches Washington DC.
Yes, that’s my point. There is also another possibility: One administration may start down that road because it doesn’t plan on ever allowing the other party a victory again - no matter what it has to do to achieve that.
Which brings us back to that “…mob torching Washington” bit. Another War Between the States and a regional breakup would probably be a good thing in the long run, but I’d rather it not happen in my lifetime.
The “mob torching Washington” doesn’t have to be a full-scale civil war, and it doesn’t have to be a literal torching. Either party could theoretically set something like that off, by behaving badly enough that the weak partisans of a party are truly disgusted.
3/4 of America may disapprove of GWB, but it’s not all for the same reasons, and it’s not a particularly intense disapproval -not even enough to trigger off even early-1970’s levels of protest. A government would have to do something truly awful to generate a multi-million person march on Washington.
Trust me on this one, martinra - based on the early signs, Hussein The One & Co. may very well be setting foot on the path to that “something truly awful” -
I don’t know about the torches - but many of us non-Followers may easily come to be grateful that we are among the vast majority of the “bitter gun-clingers.”
As I’ve stated before, a number of times, I think the next four years are going to be pretty ugly. Just how ugly is, at this point, the primary question…before this is over, something like secession may come to look like a viable alternative…
If the uncollected garbage in the non-tourist areas of DC is as bad as I recall, you won’t need mobs with torches. A dropped cigarette would do it.