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That a man with such authoritarian and regressive tendencies and demonstrated disdain for the principles that underlie our constitution and political process as Ashcroft should come out on the side of the constitution and those very principles and processes--for whatever reasons be they principled or personal--is an astonishing implicit indictment of this administration, and most specifically Bush's inner circle, and their utter contempt for these things. Simply unbelievable.
I think that we have come to the brink of a major, major tipping point. They have been all but encircled, and are now circling their wagons in preparation for that final showdown.
A question to you legal and political experts out there. Can Bush wait for the next senate recess and then have Gonzo step down and appoint someone else as a recess apointment--someone like Olson, Bork or Silberman? And if so, can Reid keep the senate formally in session by having one or two senators convene a brief session each morning, or is a quorum required, and could a Repub successfully challenge this?
Bush, his top officials, and his remaining allies in congress and elsewhere, are left with relatively few options and ways of defending themselves at this point, with so many rats jumping ship and turning or set to turn against them, and so much damning and irrefutable evidence emerging. They will now be at their most vicious and dangerous. I wouldn't rule anything out, including a manufactured false flag and/or provoked attack by Iran to justify going to war with it--or, perhaps, something else on such an awful scale (and you all know what I'm implying).
Take away their lies, their fear and smear-based propaganda, their stonewalling, their dirty tricks, their bluster and bluffing and bloviation, and they've got NOTHING, except for the unthinkable. Which is precisely why we need to think about it.
