By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
When trying to figure out the motives of the Bush Administration on nearly any issue you can think of, the first place to look should always be Karl Rove’s “politics” workshop. By “politics,” I mainly mean how an action affects the survival of the CheneyBush Administration, and only incidentally with how it affects the Republican Party.
This solipsistic concern for their own political/economic welfare is as true today with regard to the various impeachable scandals–lying to Congress to foment wars, the outing of a covert CIA agent, the domestic spying program, U.S. Attorney firings, etc.–as it was in the first years of the CheneyBush Administration.
…The only way out of this reckless nightmare endangering America’s national security is to initiate impeachment hearings at once against Cheney and Bush. Once their “high crimes and misdemeanors” are laid out as evidence for all the public to see, it’s conceivable that many Republicans will join the effort to convict, if for no other reason than to hang on to their Congressional positions in the 2008 election. It’s won’t be done maliciously – it’s just politics.
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