I believe in karma. The acts and deeds that make up one’s life summarily dictate how one fares throughout their existence. We are all personally responsible in this way. The power to choose what we say and do is great—use it wisely.
I’ve come to accept that as the Bush administration winds down, no formal charges, impeachment, or real sticking guilt will fall upon the heads of the top administration players—as it should. However, I have also formed a prediction that through the forces of karma or simple justice, a day of accountability does await the administration. How could it not? With the laundry list of scandals, widespread corruption and penchant for deception that seems to mark this administration at every turn, it’s likely only a matter of time before it all catches up.
A deathbed admission, or a reincarnated life as a parasite (if you’re into that sort of thing), may be an option for the future. But my prediction has more to with judicial accountability. Charges and convictions. And I feel that it’s imminent and foreboding.
Likely when Bush exits the oval office he will attain the honor of not only the president having taken the most vacation days, but also leaving the longest list of pardons on his desk. (Is this a matter of public record? Or does a FOIA need to be requested?) It will be interesting to see how many Wall Streeters will receive W’s blessing. But being that real litigation of Bush, Cheney et al will come after January 20, 2009, the pardon pen will not be retroactive and of no saving grace for many of the crimes while in office.
So here’s a chance to help guess which scandal will be the one to deliver a karmic dessert to this ugly chapter of US politics. Below are just a few culled from the last eight years:
• Political influencing of the Justice Department (This is my current pick as the most likely)
• CIA Plame outting
• The case for war in Iraq
• The case for war in Iran (potential)
• NSA wiretapping
• Prisoner abuse/Gitmo
• No-bid contractors/bribes
• Lobbyists/K Street/Abramoff
• “Lost” White House e-mails/using RNC servers
Or will it be something else? Something not even known yet? What’s your guess?
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The more we learn about the DOJ scandal, the more it works as an encompassing theory to fit all of the egregious behavior of this crooked administration. A more blatant example is difficult to imagine where ideology, and loyalty to a brand, trumps common sense, qualified candidates, good government, and above all the rule of law.
Oh, how many times have we heard Republicans, or so-called “conservatives” blast quota systems? This corrupt act blows the doors off of those complaints.
Personally, I think the lies spread by anti-American leftists are more deserving of one being re-incarnated as a bug. Course, a bug is a higher form of life than a leftist, and one of more value to the USA, but I digress.
The Left has lied so often and so boldly that un-thinking idiots [much of the citizens of the USA] are beginning to believe it. But here is an example of what liberal leaders were saying in the run up to the war:
One of them was Charles Schumer:
Hussein’s vigorous pursuit of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, and his present and potential future support for terrorist acts and organizations . . . make him a terrible danger to the people of the United States.
Another was Hillary Clinton:
My position is very clear. The time has come for decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s WMD’s.
John Edwards was still another:
Every day [Saddam] gets closer to his long-term goal of nuclear capability.
Howard Dean, then the governor of Vermont, was of a similar mind:
There’s no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the U.S. and our allies.
More than half of Senate Democrats, including John Kerry and Joseph Biden, joined with Republicans in authorizing the President “to defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq,” and in so doing to enforce all the relevant but ineffectual resolutions passed by the UN Security Council. In the House, 81 Democrats (out of 209 in total) concurred. Later, many would claim that they had been tricked or misled or even lied to. In fact, the vote reflected nothing more than an affirmation of the old Clinton-era position, now urgently reinforced by the experience of 9/11.2
It was, after all, California’s Nancy Pelosi who had warned the nation on December 16, 1998, during Operation Desert Fox, that Saddam’s “development of WMD technology . . . is a threat to countries in the region.” During the House debate in October 2002, Pelosi sounded the same urgent theme, summing up a threat whose imminence the Democrats had been insisting upon for years. “Yes,” reiterated the tireless Pelosi, “[Saddam] has chemical weapons. He has biological weapons. He is trying to get nuclear weapons.”
[cites omitted, google it yourself if you care].
AS TO THE “OUTTING OF PLAME”, another lie of the left, repeated continually. Richard Armitage, who worked for Colin Powell, is the one who accidentally outted Plame. The State Department, which requested that the “outting” be investigated, knew this before the special prosecutor was appointed, and the special prosecutor knew that within weeks, but he continued to keep looking for reasons to prosecute somebody else, somebody closer to Bush/Cheney.
Sorry, it gets old pointing out the lies that zen keeps repeating, like a mindless little leftist robot. If that seems harsh, well, the truth often is.
The crap about the “DOJ scandal” might have some merit were it not the Clinton lovers who are pushing it, and the fact that Clinton fired not 8, BUT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE US ATTORNEYS when he took office. Was that a scandal? Ooooh, noooo, that was business as usual. But let Bush seek to pick his own candidates, and those same people who adored Clinton pull themselves inside out to claim getting rid of a hand-full of them is a “scandal.” Sorry, but some of us aren’t mindless, and we can remember further than the last 2-3 years.
Please, God, give us some little mindless leftist with a little more brains to toy with. The ones we got ain’t too swift. TIA. Amen.