Pelosi & Conyers– Too Good?
I’ve been traveling on the mainland for the holidays; I hope you have had a splendid time, as I have.
But the world continues, uninterrupted by such niceties. Today I ran across a fascinating piece by Rob Kall, AKA robkallopednews on DailyKos (Tue Dec 26, 2006 at 11:54:53 AM PST), originally posted at www.OpEdNews.com, with the title
Pelosi and Conyers– Smarter than Impeachment.
The author agrees with Pelosi & Conyers decision to take impeachment “off the table,” predicting that with the new Congress, multiple investigations will immediately commence, and that Cheney will be forced to resign first, whereupon the investigations will then proceed to lock onto President Bush. At that time, the article predicts, a dozen or so Republicans, nervous about an electoral disaster in 2008, will march over to Bush’s office and urge him to resign, for the good of the Party.
The article is well written, and highly recommended. But it leaves out some very important things. The author seems to have forgotten that it was not Congressional subpoenas that brought Nixon down in Watergate, but rather subpoenas from the office of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The article says nothing whatsoever about the role of the special prosecutor, either in the Watergate scandal or at present.
Cox was fired by Nixon during the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” stirring up a storm of public protest that forced Nixon to appoint another special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, who immediately proceeded to invoke Cox’s subpoenas, forced a quick Supreme Court review that judged against Nixon, which forced Nixon to turn over the infamous White House tapes, leading to the “smoking gun” and quickly forcing Nixon’s resignation under the threat of impeachment, only 16 weeks after Archie Cox’s original appointment.
This blog already has more than 300 comments, all of which fail to mention the role of the special prosecutors in these cases. But it represents still another indicator that things could start moving very fast in January.
Bob Schacht
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So if resignations are the prospective outcomes, then these crooks will most notably be “pardoned” for the heinous acts against The People of the United States as well as the “rest of the world”. Nixon was about to be impeached…had he been impeached, he would have been held accountable for his crimes. But the late Former President Gerald Ford pardoned him. A pardon affords no accountablity.
Impeach These criminals and hold them accountable for their crimes.
The people of Iraq have found their leaders accountable under “democratic” process, America should none the less pursue the same for its corrupt leadership.
Comment by Darrell Parsons — December 26, 2006 @ 8:49 pm
Very well reasoned post. I still am in a state of apprehension about what Bush will do in the next two years. He seems capable of anything. But I do think the Dems have a strategy that could take this adminstration down. Whatever the strategy is, it can’t be one that lets these people go unconvicted of their crimes.
Happy New Year, and let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Comment by Hattie — January 7, 2007 @ 5:40 pm