Bush's Strategy of Massive Resistance - by Paul Begala at Huffington Post

[applegrove]

Bush's Strategy of Massive Resistance
by Paul Begala
at Huffington Post
January 05, 2007

"On October 19 I debated Bob Novak at Emory University. The topic was "Civil Liberties in a Time of War." I kicked his ass, but that's not why I mention it. In the debate I predicted that, after the Democrats captured the Congress, Pres. Bush would provoke a Constitutional crisis by refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas.

Pres. Bush, I predicted, will effectively tell Speaker Pelosi, "You send the Capitol Police to enforce your subpoena. I'll send the 82d Airborne to resist them. Let's meet on the Mall and see who wins."

Novak said I was crazy. It's beginning to look like I was right.

The only reason George W. Bush would turn loose of White House Counsel Harriett Miers - who gazes upon our president with an adoration and veneration bordering on idolatry - is because he wants a war-time consigliere.

.........SNIP"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/bushs-strategy-of-massiv_b_37946.html

[Demeter]

1. Bush Will Back Himself Into The First Successful Conviction of a Sitting President

It's been too long in coming. Bush has been given every opportunity to turn aside from his course of personal destruction, to recant his erring ways, to repent and reform and get religion, but he just won't.

So, he's gonna go for the Impeachment, Conviction, Removal, War Crimes Trial in the Hague, and a reputation which will rival Nero, Caligula, and other madmen.

And America is going to oblige him, because he's earned every bit of it.

[BlueJac]

2. Absolutely.....

It is time to reel in the crooks. Bush will make the biggest stink of all time and the entire world will be watching.

[applegrove]

3. I don't think he will ever face war crimes trial because a majority of congress

voted for the war. As to impeachment...I see the longer he is in power..the greater the Dem/anti-neocon base will be. Why I hope he doesn't get impeached..just investigated. Long and hard. That will change American's aggregate thinking for a generation. But I am Canadian so I am removed from the worst traumas of this WH. So what do I know. Not really for me to say. :shrug: Of course that depends on what comes out of the investigations. And it looks like * let Harriet Miers go so that he could hire a lawyer who will stall and keep the whole *WH crew off the stand.

[JohnnyLib2]

7. "That will change American's aggregate thinking for a generation".

Wonderful statement and thought! It's one argument for patience and taking the long range perspective. 2009 will have no GWB, but the "aggregate thinking" sure as hell will matter.

[applegrove]

8. I think that is what Democrats have in mind. For those of us outside

the USA..we certainly are frustrated by the neocons and MIC. So we take the longer view. Very hard to do when your heart has been turned into a pretzel if you are American.

[twilight_sailing]

4. I was going to say,

from your lips to God's ears but then I realized you, Demeter, are one of the denizens of Olympus yourself.

[Demeter]

5. Oh, That Was SOOOO Sweet! Thank You!

Would that I was the original, and not just a lowly descendant...

[bluerum]

9. You are right. He has earned this distinction. nt

[Tellurian]

11. I don't agree with your assessment at all...

Although * has set himself up under a Federalist version of the Constitution,
the shredded version is complementary to a dictatorship. His worries are few.

The replacement attorney's agenda will be to bring about another crisis forcing
the electorate into complete and total submission.

Harriet Meir's is nether trained for or skilled enough to bring about a foreclosure
of our Constitutional Rights. She, therefore, has been relieved of her position.

edited for added link:

as the same prediction surfaces elsewhere at the most convenient of times:

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0106-24.htm

...Bush and ilk cannot be subpeonaed..there is another way- (if it can be done.)

[pretzel4gore]

6. after 911 what do you expect...

people forget how ghastly 911 played out (in a preplanned media script)

[applegrove]

10. I think 9/11 was as much a shock to the *WH as anyone else. Why

Bush froze.