Ollie Stone is not half as good a film maker as he thinks he is, nor as politically astute as he likes to be (cf. his JFK movie), but Justin is right: this is one hell of a trailer.
I wonder; will we miss Bush once he’s gone, once the memories not so much fade, as lose their urgency?
Hmmm, November’s not far away is it?
But it’s not November yet, and bearing in mind the failed bailout and those billions Bush has just released on his own say-so, maybe it’s time to refresh ourselves on those super-seekrit superpowers he’s given himself to intervene in a crisis of his own definition?
My quote of the day comes from an ABC News blogpost about John McCain and the SEC:
The White House said this week it wants to stay out of politics…
Ya, rly.
Well shirt really, but you get the picture – the picture in question being Bush apparently claiming droit de Chimperor over the US women’s Olympic beach volleyball team.
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Impeach!
The seventies are back and not just economically. Congressional subpoenas are about to start flying again, articles of impeachment are on the agenda and the federal courts have held there is no executive privilege and we may get a modern day Watergate as a result, with all the dirt dragged out into the light of 24hr multichannel coverage.
A girl can but hope…
Michael Dominguez, Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Defense, has already been threatened with contempt of congress after he revealed that he ordered Dr. Kaye Whitley,the Pentagon’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office not to comply with her own subpoena and testify about the continuing rapes of women soldiers by their supposed comrades.
Now the likes of Karl Rove and White House counsel Harriet Meiers may well be compelled by subpoena to testify about Bush malfeasance to Congress. Seeing the woman warped enough to have a crush on the idiot prince being forced to tell all will be entertaining, to say the least; as for seeing that pig Rove on the stand, squirming, well that’s just candy.
But wait – what’s this? Oh yeah, I forgot, goshdarn it.
The Bush administration can appeal, which of course they will, as what might come out otherwise would certainly land them all in jail for years, fifth amendment or no fifth amendment. Those are years they’d rather spend tying the courts up in knots, shredding documents, wiping hard drives and getting their friends in the media to revise history.By the time they get all the way to the Supreme Court there’ll be a new administration and much less appetite for raking up unpleasantness.
In any case once there I’m sure that that nice Mr. Scalia will ensure that any Son Of Watergate never sees the light of day.
I never get any fun.