Only Impeachment Can Avenge the Rape of Justice
Scott Horton's essay in Harper's lays it out as clear and as cold as you'll ever see it:
"It is increasingly clear that Republicans have come to understand the Justice Department not as 'the very foundation for a free society,' or even as a spoils system for issues-oriented voters, but rather as a machine that uses 'evasion, cover-up, stonewalling and duplicity,' among other techniques, to achieve the far more fundamental goal of taking and maintaining power ..."
"... The Republican project of the past seven years has been ... to transform the legal apparatus of the United States into an instrument of partisan force ..."
" ... The Bush transformation ... has been achieved with minimum notice, hidden within the noise and chatter of a hundred other controversies and scandals ..."
" ... Subverting an entire legal apparatus requires great effort. Laws must be circumvented, civil servants thwarted, and opposing politicians intimidated into silence ..."
" ... the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 ... required that civil servants be hired on the strength of their professional qualifications and without regard to their party affiliation or political beliefs ... the Hatch Act ... restricted the involvement of civil servants in partisan political campaigns ... The Bush Justice Department labored to get around these laws in various ways ..."
"... career civil servants were being replaced with hacks who would put loyalty to Bush well above the traditional functions of the Justice Department ..."
"... the former political director of the Texas Republican Party ... acknowledged ... that requiring photo ID's could cause enough of a drop-off in legitimate Democratic voting to add 3 percent to the Republican vote ..."
" ... our Constitution provides a mechanism for countering transformational excesses, but the people's representatives thus far appear to have decided that the impolite process of impeachment is only for presidents who have affairs ..."
So what I want to know is when will the people's representatives do the right thing? Ms. Pelosi, are you listening?
"It is increasingly clear that Republicans have come to understand the Justice Department not as 'the very foundation for a free society,' or even as a spoils system for issues-oriented voters, but rather as a machine that uses 'evasion, cover-up, stonewalling and duplicity,' among other techniques, to achieve the far more fundamental goal of taking and maintaining power ..."
"... The Republican project of the past seven years has been ... to transform the legal apparatus of the United States into an instrument of partisan force ..."
" ... The Bush transformation ... has been achieved with minimum notice, hidden within the noise and chatter of a hundred other controversies and scandals ..."
" ... Subverting an entire legal apparatus requires great effort. Laws must be circumvented, civil servants thwarted, and opposing politicians intimidated into silence ..."
" ... the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 ... required that civil servants be hired on the strength of their professional qualifications and without regard to their party affiliation or political beliefs ... the Hatch Act ... restricted the involvement of civil servants in partisan political campaigns ... The Bush Justice Department labored to get around these laws in various ways ..."
"... career civil servants were being replaced with hacks who would put loyalty to Bush well above the traditional functions of the Justice Department ..."
"... the former political director of the Texas Republican Party ... acknowledged ... that requiring photo ID's could cause enough of a drop-off in legitimate Democratic voting to add 3 percent to the Republican vote ..."
" ... our Constitution provides a mechanism for countering transformational excesses, but the people's representatives thus far appear to have decided that the impolite process of impeachment is only for presidents who have affairs ..."
So what I want to know is when will the people's representatives do the right thing? Ms. Pelosi, are you listening?
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