Let me see if I understand how this works. Bush commits a crime, violates his oath of office, but he classifies it so that nobody can talk about it and even the Ministry of Justice cannot investigate it. If Bush’s crimes somehow come to light, the journalists that exposed it will be prosecuted for publicizing classified information. The Law Lords are mostly reliable GOP hacks who would gleefully use the Constitution as toilet paper, so Bush need not worry about ever being held to account. Nixon was right. It isn’t illegal if the president does it.
The key is a prostrate, corrupt Congress, and Bush has that in spades. Even Caligula and his ilk maintained the forms of the Republic and pretended to respect the prerogatives of the Senate, except for the part about making his horse a Senator. Will Bush make Barney a Senator? I know he isn’t 30 years old, but the Constitution doesn’t rule out dog years anyway.
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Corrupt Congress?
Do you think honest men would ever do
that "work"?
If there were a few honest men there, couldn't one call them stupid?
That pretty well covers it, I'd say.
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