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6 comments:
Love the new 'Burn Ye Lifeboats' pic.
https://fafblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/down-with-ship.html
While I do feel there is some merit in the idea that we, as Democrats (or truthfully, those Democrats in strategy decision making positions) could at least learn from, if not wholesale adopt some of the Republican political tactics with which they have kicked the fuck out of us, I do not feel that "lock them up" is one of those tactics.
Instead, it is a nice encapsulation of one (of the many) tasks laid out in front of the Biden administration. They have to restore the integrity and independence of the DOJ. Biden not only doesn't have to, but indeed SHOULD NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES play any major role in the investigation and/or prosecution of Fergus and his felons (and now it looks like also his family), with the possible exception of the declassification and unredaction of the Mueller probe and its accompanying documents.
That not only isn't a problem, it's the basis of the structure of our government.
That said, letting them slither away from their crimes willy-nilly should not be an option.
The learning from the past that needs to occur on this is the way Bush/Cheney left such a toxic, deteriorating disaster of the country that a reasonable, if wrong, argument could be made that expending resources on prosecuting them for torture would be too much of a distraction from the extinguishing of the fires to be warranted, or at least not be worth the accusations of politicization of the incoming DOJ that would surely result from it.
Yeah, it would have been hard. Yeah the country was in crisis. So they didn't do it and here we are.
Here we are in a crisis an order of magnitude worse than 2009, so the holding to account of the miscreants in the current administration will be even harder, but failing to do so this time only invites crises of even less imaginable proportions under the Cotton or Hawley administrations.
Time to bite that bullet. Chomp.
But as I said, it can be done of a piece with the restoration of the DOJ that absolutely will be happening, and serve as a demonstration of the successful achievement of same.
The goddamn cuckoo coup crew needs to be called to book if we want there to still be a representative republic in ten years.
Thank you again for the podcast. The damn cat brought in another poor, shivering mouse and promptly let it go. It scurried under the shelving unit like a Republican away from an inconvenient question and we may have to take the whole thing apart to flush him out.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"[L]etting them slither away from their crimes willy-nilly should not be an option." I agree whole-heartedly and base me concurrence on the recollection that we let nothing happen to Nixon, even less happen to Reagan, et al., if fact, it seems a bit of lingering attempts at canonization remain, and Bush/Cheney have been subject to zero frog-marches to the Hague despite my continuing and various entreaties to all deities and symbol systems I have ever heard of. It keeps getting worse and more pronounced.
I would like to propose exactly what Doug in Sugar Pine has, that a portion of the of the restoration of the DOJ will be that the holding to account of the miscreants in the current administration is happening, and will serve as a demonstration of the successful return of the rule of law and the accountability of these acting on our behalf in the public sphere.
I see no real reason for Biden or anyone to have their names or reputation associated with such an action, rather it is the machinery of our democracy doing what it should be doing best, The People's Business.
Not all rats scramble for survival at sea.
While focus on lifeboats is a noble endeavor for Justice served.
Let us not ignore the demand for parachutes. It is not only Trump- Tanic with it's rat infested fleeing for their lives.
It is Trump's space force With it's outbreak of Space Herpes finding a way to return to Earth.
Air Force one losing altitude fast and out of control.
Bailing out, in dire need of a soft landing while commander Ahab finally meets his whale of destiny.
As Putin declares Trump won the election because Russia is better off than it was 4 years ago.
Perhaps the 6 overlord Supremes will fast track Putin's case for the Trump election win.
Thanks for filikas online words.
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