Shit, it sorta worked once...

Could the time be approaching when Preznit Empty Flightsuit will have to star in his own episode of "Ollie North Theater"?

Well, does anyone remember that little Republican Constitutional Crisis called Iran/Contra?

Where yet another Republican Administration decided to use terrorism as cover-fire for it’s actual, Fascist proclivities and ended up with…

…the Republican President lying his ass off to the American public about what he was really doing?

…the Republican Administration sternly warning the press and the public NOT to look into its dirty laundry hamper because that would only strengthen the hands of the terrorists and weaken America?

…the Republican Administration pimping the fear of another Muslim enemy who would stop at nothing to blah-blah-blah and the genuine concern over Americans in harm’s way to smuggle in its real agenda: carrying out an explicitly illegal foreign policy and illegally pumping taxpayer dollars to its friends?

…under every rock you turn over you find money laundering, lies and yet another nest of squirmy Republican hacks and cronies.

…the Republicans in Congress and in the hysterical rank-and-file jizzing their collective ink sacs into the political waters as hard as possible to hide the fact that their President was a liar and that, as Republicans, they really just don’t give a shit when a Republican President commits high crimes and treason?

...(but hey, when a Democratic President is getting a little extra-marital fellatio, it’s “Katie Bar the Fucking Door!”)

…one of the chief henchmen in that Administration – guy named George Bush – desperately deploying the “I didn’t know shit that was going on (because I was out picking up the Gipper’s dry cleaning when they were conspiring to commit dozens of interlocking federal crimes)” defense.

And how, in the end, they got their whiny-ass baby-titties all caught in the wringer because they got busted and couldn’t blackmail or bribe or “National Security” their larcenous asses out of it?

Well, I swear it's like there is some treachery-gene deep in their political DNA, because current events are now shaping up to look a whole lot like Iran/Contra.

But worse. Oh so very much worse.

“Watergate” worse.

This from the WaPo (emphasis added…)

Daschle: Congress Denied Bush War Powers in U.S.

By Barton Gellman

Friday, December 23, 2005; A04
The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority "in the United States" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in today's Washington Post.

Daschle's disclosure challenges a central legal argument offered by the White House in defense of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It suggests that Congress refused explicitly to grant authority that the Bush administration now asserts is implicit in the resolution.

The Justice Department acknowledged yesterday, in a letter to Congress, that the president's October 2001 eavesdropping order did not comply with "the 'procedures' of" the law that has regulated domestic espionage since 1978. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, established a secret intelligence court and made it a criminal offense to conduct electronic surveillance without a warrant from that court, "except as authorized by statute."

There is one other statutory authority for wiretapping, which covers conventional criminal cases. That law describes itself, along with FISA, as "the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance . . . may be conducted."

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Daschle's article reveals an important new episode in the resolution's legislative history.

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"Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text," Daschle wrote. "This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused."

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Republican legislators involved in the negotiations could not be reached for comment last night.

Why is it worse?

Because the Republicans in this country have seen the same nauseating bullshit cascading out of the White House for the last five years as everyone else on the face of the Earth has. But instead of reacting with shock or fury or even running a mild temperature, Republicans – like the human shit-scrapers that they have become – have completely disavowed every word of the Righteous Rightwing Rhetoric they threw around with such reckless abandon seven years ago when they were busy trying to overthrow the Clinton Presidency.

Back then, no tactic was too sleazy to be used to bag the Big Dog, and no untruth too small to be grounds for impeachment.

So where are those oh-so righteous men now? After Downing Street? After Jeff Gannon? After Valerie Plame? After Pentagon Spying? After the ocean of slime on which the floated their Schiavo Armada?

After Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of foreign leaders?

After Katrina and “Heckuva Job” Brownie?

After 8 billion dollars missing in Iraq?

After one billion of our tax dollars embezzled in Iraq?

After no-bid contracts to the Friends of Dubya in a war ginned up by the Friends of Dubya?

After Cheney hiding his Secret Oil Cabal behind National Security up in his undisclosed "He-Man, Woman Hater's" clubhouse?

After the war on seniors during those glorious, “Political Capital” days of Dubya’s campaign to loot Social Security?

After fake terror alerts during the run-up to the 2004 election?

We’ll, turns out all those Righteous Wingnuts sorta lost interest in the Truth, the Constitution and the dignity of the Presidency once Dubya moved into 1600. In fact they seem to thrive and grow fat on Republican Lies.

Like some breed of rare fucktard salmon, the faster and deeper the river of shit gushes out of the Oval Office, the harder they struggle to swim upstream and spawn at its headwaters.

Or, I suppose, in this case, “asswaters”.

The more Bush lies, the more they defend him.

The more transparent the lies become, the louder and more incoherent his defenders get, which is why this is soooo much worse than Iran/Contra.

As True Believers, both the necons and the Christopaths are bound on all sides by their purblind dogmatism. These “Fuck the facts; we move by fuctard faith and fuctard faith alone” Republicans can never admit the Left is ever right about anything, or that they or their Dear Leader are ever wrong. This Manichean view of the Universe simply does not allow for cooperation, and compromise of any kind with the impure members of other castes is viewed as the lowest form of betrayal.

Of course since cooperation and compromise are the peanut butter and jelly of a free and civil society, no surprise that when the lights comes on we find the GOP in bed with the scum of the Earth. They despise democracy – real democracy – on an almost cellular level. And after 30 years of getting drunk on their own brownshirt propaganda, the Republicans have left themselves no place to go.

Bush MUST be right: If not, their ideological world stops turning, and their pin-heads heads start exploding.

If not, their Party is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

What do I mean, "biblical"?

I mean Old Testament. Real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of political darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead Left rising from the grave.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together!

This is vastly worse than Iran/Contra, because during that scandal, the slight ambiguity of the players, their motives and the reach of the law vis-à-vis the Boland Amendment left the GOP a few scraggly trees behind which they could hide.

But here, not so much. Here the Dear Leader is caught butt-naked, in the open, in broad daylight, fucking the Constitution just for the Hell of it.

Here, by going and asking permission to warrantlessly spy on Americans in America, Dubya himself had already set the precedent of acknowledging that only the law-making arm of the government could grant him such extraordinary permission.

And by rejecting that request out-of-hand, the Congress of the United States has already and unambiguously expressed its will: that it was explicitly against the law and the intent of the legislative branch of government for Dubya to conduct such domestic spying.

And then he went ahead and did it anyway, in full knowledge that what he was doing against the law.

This is, without question, an impeachable offense. Or, rather, yet another impeachable offense, but this time there are no if’s, and’s, or but’s attached to it.

Here, “Res Ipsa Loquitur” -- the thing speaks for itself – and here, at last, Dubya has left his loyal thralls no cover behind which they can hide.

Now, in order to rise to the defense of this Administration, Republicans have to finally admit – in front of God and everybody -- that they despise the Constitution and the Rule of Law…except when they can find a way to warp it to whip the shit out of a Democratic President.

Now, at last, the day you have been warned about, Republicans, is approaching. The day you have been dreading.

The day you have to stand up, show your face in the light, and choose: Dubya…or Democracy.

Because the facts admit no third alternative.