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Washington, D.C.: President Clinton today was asked about the growing controversy as the GOP filed a motion to dismiss charges against former president, George W. Bush, former vice president Richard Cheney, Karl Rove, and former Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
President Clinton replied that the fate of the cases against the former administration were out of her hands, and the only thing she could be able to do at some point down the line is grant a pardon if the case warranted it. The majority of those polled believe that the president has no desire to grant such a pardon.
Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld, as well as several other members of the former administration, including Condaleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and Scott McClennan, are being held on multiple charges and counts, including second degree murder, perjury, government conspiracy, treason and many others. Upon their arrest during the third week in Janaury, 2010, many citizens were shocked that they had been so blatantly manipulated. Of course, there were reports that several members of the Supreme Court wanted to exonerate them, but the House and Senate, now both predominantly Democratic, refused to budge on all the charges. With the death of Judge William Renquist in February, 2009, it was a shock that he had managed to survive until a Democrat was once again president, giving the Supreme Court the slight liberal edge it needed.
In the meantime, many members of the Senate and House were philosophical about the scandal, reflecting on the death of Mark Felt, once reviled by GOP members as the elusive
Deep Throat" during the Watergate scandal. "This is far worse than the Watergate Scandal," said one Republican member of the House after being promised anonymity. "Hubris and arrogance might have been part of the Watergate scandal, but there was never any pre-planned motions to lie in order to declare war like there had been during Bush's terms in office. This is true outright treason, beginning with the Patriot Act, sending our soldiers to certain death, and bullying many people in both our own country and abroad into submission against the best possible intentions. The 'You're either with us or against us' attitude made many people in our country feel that if we didn't agree with them bastards that we were as bad as the terrorists."
"'The Teflon President' has lost his coating," said Senator Edward Kennedy. "Finally, these people will pay for the horrors and treachery they committed for 8 years in our country, and for ruining all relations the United States once enjoyed with the nations in the rest of the world."
Howard Dean was more philosophical: "They tried it their way until the people were finally smart enough to see them for what they were. Now it's time for them to pay."
John Kerry, who only six years ago ran for the presidency against Bush in his second term, was finally reconciled to the fact that the Republicans conspired with Wally O'Dell of Diebold to steal the 2004 presidency through false readings on the electronic voting machines. Many pundits, when hearing the facts, were astonished to think that the Bush administration would stoop to such measures.
Now that all the records are showing up, it is interesting to note that many documents which had somehow "disappeared" during the Bush terms that could be used against him and other members of his cabinet were seemingly removed from government files during Bush's two terms as president, and during his time serving as governor of Texas. The records that are now coming into evidence are copies held by executives and other officials who made sure they remained available if and when the evidence came to light about Bush and his illicit deals.
President Clinton made it clear that she felt the charges were fair and true. She was accused by one GOP pundit, Ann Coulter (who pursued the impeachment of her husband, President Bill Clinton, to the bitter end), as trying to railroad Bush and his cronies on little more than some fabricated evidence, but even major news sources (except for Fox News) gave credit to President Clinton for remaining mostly "hands off" in the investigations into the dealing of the former Bush administration. "Ms. Coulter is now being recognized for being the true partisan whore that she is, by even the most blatant GOP party members. She will now find that her popularity will soon equal that of George Bush and his administration in the last year of his second term in office, when even most Republicans in the nation knew enough to see the truth of that administration." The statement by President Clinton was made in the Rose Garden of the White House as she entertained Desmond Tutu, President Chirac and President Putin.
What is the GOP doing to help the former president, vice-president and members of the former administration? It is only those on the radical right, including many of the fundamentalist and evangelical groups, who wish to see Bush exonerated, and the privileges they had during the Bush term re-established, but they are just vocal enough to stir up many of their followers in an effort to reclaim the United States as their so-called "Christian Nation." Since Clinton's term in office began, many states with school materials on creationism have been told that they will have to forego federal funding if they insist on teaching religious beliefs in public schools, a move which has prompted many fundamentalists to take their children out of those schools and attempt to home school them. The NEA and other federal education groups have also made it clear that home schooling will be carefully watched and evaluated, with special requirements in all subjects that must be met in order for the children to "graduate" like their public and parochial school counterparts. In addition, many federal, state and private grant and scholarship programs are now excluding home schooled children from their programs unless all those requirements are met.
As Mark Brown, Secretary of Education, said: "Religious views are personal and not educational. The children and adults in our country are free to choose their religious beliefs to practice as they so wish, but for governmental purposes, certain criteria need to be met in order to qualify a child for government money in scholarship funding, and for inclusion in any college level curricula. It is sad that those who have been home schooled for religious purposes must be denied that funding, but their parents knew going in that their children would be stunted by their lack of education in subjects such as science, evolution, and sexual education."
The nation, as vice-president John Edwards said, is finally back on the right track, after eight horrific years of derailment. "We must continue to be vigilant, to see that special groups and large corporations never again hold that kind of power in our country. Their arrogance against the average American, and the poorest Americans, almost put our country into the same abyss which threatens many third world countries abroad. It is imperative that we preserve the freedom for all--to make us all compassionate and attentive enough to give all nations the hand up when we can."
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