The Prosecutors Scandal is a Big Deal

Just thought that I'd mention that I think the prosecutors scandal being uncovered in the United States is a big deal and it might very well signal the end of the bush II regime.

As Glenn Greenwald is trying to explain to the absolutely ridiculous Washington punditocracy, using the Justice Department as a partisan weapon against one's enemies (including using it as a tool for voter suppression), and preventing said Justice Department from prosecuting the extreme corruption of one's partisan allies, ... and lying about all of this under oath to Congress, ... is a big deal.

In the Greenwald link, there's some discussion about these Washington media stars groundlessly claiming that "the American People" don't want an investigation of this. To their great good credit, the vast majority of Americans do want this obscenity investigated. Just like the vast majority of them want out of Iraq. And for the record, the majority of that nation was always smart enough to reject bush II. ("Consent of the governed" indeed!)

And this appears to be big. HUGE. Because it's all coming out at once. The bush II regime has never been that smart. Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rove were never particularly prescient about anything in the past, ... except about how to insinuate themselves into the system to positions so powerful that they were able to prevent inquiries into their own corruption and incompetence.

But as the leaders, left to forumalate actual policy, and with no one to watch them and curb their excessess, they have produced one atrocity after another. And with a Republican Congress there was nothing to stop them from one obvious crime after another. That's all over now. There is going to be Legislative oversight, and Legislative investigation of this latest scandal, and their crude paw-prints are all over the place.

Whitehouse Press Secretary Tony Snow has babbled on at least a couple of occassions that bush II/the Executive Branch didn't have to turn over anything to Congress. That's false. bush II will have to turn over everything that Congress asks for. And that will be that.

I wonder, ... there is no two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate. But mighten't ordinary Americans be able to initiate lawsuits against the members of this criminal regime after their term of office expires? Is the legislative path the only route to criminal prosecution of politicians?