Dave Lindorff: Democrats' Calls for Resignations are Pointless Diversions

[marmar]

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Democrats' Calls for Resignations are Pointless Diversions

All these calls from Democrats in Congress for Bush administration people to resign are missing, or deliberately obfuscating, the point.

The FBI abused its power under the PATRIOT Act to obtain American citizens’ financial and other records without a court warrant, so Democrats are calling for FBI Director Robert Mueller’s resignation. The Justice Department and the White House conspire to fire and replace federal prosecutors who aren’t sufficiently aggressive about investigating and harassing Democratic officials (relying on a measure tucked into the renewal of the PATRIOT Act), so Democrats are calling for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Seriously wounded Iraq War veterans are being treated disgracefully, if they are treated at all, and there are howls for top military and Veterans Administration officials to resign.

But the problem isn’t the officials; it’s the laws that were passed--usually with Democratic Party support.
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Let’s face reality here: The Democratic Party folded under pressure in 2001-2 and passed terrible and outrageous laws that everyone with a brain knew would be used and misused by the Bush/Cheney administration to usurp and aggrandize power at the expense of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, constitutional government and the future of the Republic. Now that we have seen the predictable fruits of those terrible laws, it makes no sense to simply call for the resignation of officials who have been making predictable use of them.

It’s time to repeal the damned laws. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

[msongs]

1. good ideas. who CAN we elect that will repeal these laws??

first we have to have an opposition party in control of congress that has the nerve an integrity to do such things.

maybe we will get one finally in the 2008 elections. We certainly do not have one now.

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[KittyWampus]

2. Lindorff, you are an asshole. I guess the Democrats have a fucking magic wand?s

Our leaders are doing their jobs and are taking the right steps ONE AT A TIME.