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Edited on Sat Jan-27-07 07:29 PM by calimary
Look at how things have changed since November 7th, 2006.
Would you have EVER expected that the Dems actually would grow spine, and start giving grief to these schmucks?
Did you even dream that there actually would be committees set up to do away with all this sneaky-ass secrecy shit while purportedly doing "the people's business"?
Did you ever think some of the leading lights from Leahy to Waxman to Rangel and Conyers would be in LEADERSHIP positions, at the helm of these committees, and that they'd clamp such a strong, steady grip on the steering wheel?
Could you ever have imagined that Chuck Hagel, (Knuckledragger-Nebraska) would go off like that in committee this past week, yelling in outrage about the abuses of power of which this White House is guilty, and how every last one of the 100 Senators now in office needs to stand up and face the voters and declare where they stand and get all the facts and cut through all the lies and damned well know what they're doing BEFORE they agree to something as horrific as sending more Americans to a needless, senseless death? I mean, THAT, all by itself... Holy COW. And with SUCH emotion and such force? I thought he was gonna start foaming at the mouth when I watched him in the thick of that. And I'd bet you hard money he was yelling at himself because HE was one of the offenders, one of the appeasers, one of the collaborators, one of the enablers WHO ALLOWED THIS CRIMINAL SITUATION TO OCCUR, UNQUESTIONED, IN THE FIRST PLACE. I suspect Chuck Hagel is most angry at himself for being a sucker. At least he has the balls to come out and say so, while others still remain in deep denial and haven't figured out how to come to grips with their own personal shame about THEIR enabling of all this.
I keep harping on 11/7 - (frankly, I think we all should, the very same way the assholes out there keep harping on 9/11 - 11/7 is an EQUALLY heavyweight, historic, significant, and shattering day in our history) because IT WAS THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED, YET AGAIN. To those who'd whine that "9/11 changed EVERYTHING!!!!" - well, 11/7 CHANGED IT BACK!!! That's what slapped us awake, and shook us back to our senses. And what let the games begin.
bush spoke somewhat euphemistically about "global climate change." I think there's been a measurable and extremely noticeable "POLITICAL climate change." All of a sudden, it's freed up people like Chuck Hagel and a few others to feel empowered to escape the oppression that had locked us all up for awhile (willingly or unwillingly). It was an unmistakable signal that we were Under New Management. Things were gonna be different. Things were going to run differently. And there WOULD be accountability. It freed Hagel and others to surrender to perhaps that little gnawing voice in the back of their minds that they fought to suppress because they felt compelled to "support our president" without question. Now, they were free to start asking questions, because the VOTERS interrupted and woke 'em up and gave them permission by forcing a management change on Capitol Hill. They were yanked back to reality. And some of them, I think, probably had wanted to go there for awhile but didn't feel like they could. But the voters spoke and there was no mistaking what the voters said. Hard to mistake it, anyway, when YOUR friends are all escorted to the back of the room, and instructed to hand over the gavels of chairmanship and the really good seat at the head of the table and the other titles and perks and office upgrades that come with it. HARD to overlook or ignore THAT. Sorta punches 'em straight in the nose, yanno? BELIEVE ME, Chuck Hagel wouldn't have gone off like Vesuvius like that if bush had maintained full control of all of Washington, and all the committee heads were fellow republi-CONS and the status quo had somehow been reaffirmed by the voters. He woulda sat there and expressed perhaps a small twinge of uncertainty but wouldn't have made ANY of the stink about the need for accountability - the way he wound up doing. Back when the bad guys owned it all, "accountability" wasn't even a word in the dictionary.
So that's the climate in which our dear Miss Cathie Martin finds herself. She clearly can see the political climate change around her. She can see whose neck is being pushed nearer and nearer to the block. And it's not the other guys, it's her own teammates. And she and her crowd AREN'T in full control anymore. And now they've got questions to answer and prosecutors to face and some really uncomfortable shit that's been backed up like some huge case of constipation for the past six years. Well, now, the sphincter can't hold that flood back anymore.
So here is little Cathie Martin. LITTLE Cathie Martin. An underling, a good, loyal foot soldier who received the orders to make the calls and blow in the ears of reporters and drop little, subtle, murmured bombs about Joseph and Valerie Plame Wilson. She was following orders, down at her low level on the food chain. Orders from higher up. Perhaps even from at or near the very top.
And now the people in charge all over Capitol Hill are no longer gonna be burying this shit, or kicking it aside, or killing it in committee, or overloading it with other amendments that the opponents will have to oppose - and thus up-end the more important basic that is now screwed. And no longer will you have a snake like pat roberts deciding that the second part of that report - about the use of the bad intel - that was supposed to be taken up "after the election" suddenly had disappeared into thin air. Now, NOBODY is gonna sit there and shrug - "uhhhh... WHAT report???" People like Cathie Martin are seriously noticing this, and realize that this shit is ALL gonna start coming out. If Patrick Fitzgerald doesn't pry it out of somebody, some Henry Waxman type WILL. Skating season is OVER. And she knows she can't afford to be left out in the middle of the lake wearing those heavy skates while the ice is melting around her. Even sweeter, she knows that EVERYBODY is being sworn in, under oath (unlike when arlen specter was "helping" to run things). And all of a sudden, the danger of perjury is VERY, VERY real. And the people running things now aren't like arlen specter. THEIR perjury charges are going to be taken seriously, pursued, and made to stick.
One other EXTREMELY significant thing that's now obvious to all as a result of that Political Climate Change: the media is talking about it and covering it, and fairly widely. Maybe not as aggressively as they all could be, but as H2O Man noted up top, there were about 1,000 newspapers nationwide carrying something about the latest eye-popper in the libby trial. They have tons of lost ground to revisit and make up, but now, they're actually doing it, at long last. And the investigative reporters who sat back and snoozed because Clinton wasn't there to kick around anymore and the wrong-wing radio hacks didn't have as big and juicy a target to push THEM to persecute anymore, suddenly have awakened and sat up, and have noticed there's some GENUINE, UNADULTERATED SHIT going on that's beckoning them to start digging. And this is FAR more intriguing and heavily-weighted than some stupid illicit blowjob. There is, pardon the pun, a helluva lot more meat in that sandwich sitting there on the table in front of them now than EVER was the case when the servers were serving them during the Clinton era. Even Michael Isikoff seems to have realized that there's a lot juicier fruit out there to start picking than some smalltime devil with a stained blue dress.
Our Little Cathie is realizing there IS Hell to pay and the bill collectors for that are already marching up the front walkway. This is suddenly very real to someone like her, and very scary. Especially since she's sufficiently low on the totem pole that no bush or cheney would give a fuck if she got sent to prison. She's not worth a pardon. She's certainly no kkkarl rove and therefore not worth the strenuous protection efforts that have been mounted for him from the highest levels. She won't qualify for that kind of VIP treatment. Hell, even scooter libby's being thrown overboard to protect kkkarl. kkkarl will get pardoned. She, on the other hand, is a nobody and evidently knows she doesn't rate that kind of special handling. So she's singing like an opera diva, putting her hopes and her willingness to cooperate on the clemency of Patrick Fitzgerald. She has now recognized that the people she worked for, and risked serious legal troubles for, aren't the ones who are gonna butter her bread from now on. Not that it ever even was butter. Only people like kkkarl get that. And she knows it.
Political Climate Change. In this case, it's absolutely breathtaking, and long prayed for. THIS kind of "climate change" we NEED.
I find this whole sordid affair kinda like - which is it? A Mounds bar or an Almond Joy? "Indescribably Delicious!"
Aw shit - sorry this is so long. I guess turns of events like these just inspire me...
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