Miers Departure a Good Sign

[babylonsister]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_070106_miers_departure_a_go.htm

Miers Departure a Good Sign

by Rob Kall

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Bush's problem is he only hires people who are blindly loyal to him, who tell him what he wants to hear and who are pretty much willing to sell out their soul, their family, and certainly their country to give Dubya whatever he wants. That doesn't generally produce a person who is particularly competent and certainly doesn't produce good advice or a person of integrity.

At this point, any person who takes a job with Bush or his administration deserves to be tarred with a lifetime reputation as a sellout who has no integrity, who will tell a boss what he wants to hear, who has no loyalty to country or values, who has no guts to speak the truth, no courage to stand up to a boss. And this, will, I hope, also apply to all the generals who left Bush's service in good graces, like Tommy Franks.

The good news is, since Bush has proven himself unable to choose competence over almost sociopathic loyalty, it is likely that he will be brining in another incompetent, who will, when the shit hits the fan, sell out Bush rather than go down... I hope.

If Bush were smart, which he has consistently proven he is not, he'd do what Karl Rove did-- hire a smart Democrat to represent him. That's why Rove wasn't indicted by Fitzgerald.

The good news is that Miers is leaving because Bush knows that he is in for a lot of battles, that frat boy dubya is out of the frat house (Republican led congress) and into the street and he's going to get his ass kicked-- a sweet, sweet image to consider. The question is, will Bush, a weak, cowardly sort, be able to tolerate the routine, methodical beating the Dems should be planning for him? Will the Dems do what they should do and keep after Bush, week after week, month after month, attacking him, challenging him, accusing, indicting, subpoenaing him and all the sycophantic lackeys around him? If they don't, they will be failing to do their job, failing to take the fight for America to where it should be fought.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Amen

[salin]

2. I think the thin-skinned peevish president will crackup

he doesn't admit he has ever made mistakes, he is used to people covering his ass, and he doesn't take criticism well. At some point he is going snap.

[pretzel4gore]

3. and let's NEVER forget the mediawhores....

for example, those pukes at the 'F' word network (as cafferty calls foxnnews) have cost every citizen how many tens/thousands of dollars-stretvhing into distant future? had they told the truth, geeb, that's jeb's silly brother, would never have lived down dancing nakkid on that texas college bar, or those 5 dui's, but they too busy lying about al gore inventing the transitor radio(!!)...
every hard nosed bizmen in the land should know that the mediawhores will cost them each a steak dinner, every single second of their business lives (and that's just the small timers)
you'd think the suit'n'ties would be in a mob hanging rush limbah-humbug, or anus coulter, but NOOOO! they prefer their battles with babies in cradles

[anniebelle]

4. Indeed!

:popcorn:

[peacetalksforall]

5. A second wave is descending on us. Yes, they are gearing up

for legal actions - and hearings are legal actions. But, Negroponte would not have been given the Homeland Spying job if he wasn't pro Pentagon. The State Dept is about to be run by a Pentagon representative, Negroponte. CIA-Military - they are still all about controlling us by owning our phones, computers, mail, votes, outer space spying, data mining, building files on all of us which we know is primarily political, and they create and maintain our killing and hating legacy through imperialism at home and abroad through massive debt.... for the benefit of a few barons who have dictated the agenda to bring this country to second and third world status for their world direction. Martial law and banking changes are probably around the corner - on their agenda.

We've had six years to know the players, Gonzales, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Casey - the second continuation wave of players is descending and we only have two years to know them. Are they there to put the brakes on or to take us over the cliff all the while witnessing?

To what degree of desperation will they advance their agenda in the next two years and beyond? All the while partnering with Israel, Saudi Arabia, certain ME countries, ordering new war toys, hiring foreigners to fight with a citizenship paycheck, letting the cargo come in through foreign owned ports - and continuing to destroy industry in this country while parking their money outside this country and organizing to avoid the laws of this country.

We are the ones who are supposed to be saintly law keepers, tax payers, job droppers, mortgage losers, while some stay hungry, less than educated, uninsured, and attempting to believe in the work of our leaders in government.

[fasttense]

6. I was listening to Randi last night

and she suggested that bush will use the "I didn't understand the law" excuse when the investigations start. That is why he makes those absurd signing statements even when they don't seem to apply sometimes to the laws he attaches them to. He's throwing out this rigged up excuse, or his interpretation of the law, to protect himself from prosecution. He can say I broke the law because I didn't understand it and here is my interpretation of the law in the signing statement. Now Miers is not known for her legal cunning. Getting rid of her allows him to get someone who could defend him.

[ClayZ]

7. That didn't work for me, getting a ticket yesterday.

I did not see the sign saying to not to turn left between the hours of 4 - 6 PM.

Cost me a perfect 40 year driving record and $100.00. (The cop was a republican and didn't like my bumperstickers, I think)

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Ignorance of everything, for bu$h, is no longer an excuse!

GO DEMS!

[speedoo]

8. K&R.

Excellent op ed.

[applegrove]

9. Agreed.

[Demeter]

10. No Lawyer Can Get This Much Toothpaste Back In the Tube And Ford Is Dead

so I'd say Bush's goose is cooked to a turn and about to burn.