n e u f n e u f: like i say, conyers should resign

05 March 2009

like i say, conyers should resign

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I know you already know all about this, but I had to mention it. I am gravely disappointed in him, and I don't think any of the three million excuses for his failure to perform are good enough, not even that Pelosi won't let him.

And, truly, this relates to it. It is their duty to deal with all the crimes of the * administration, legally. It's already been made abundantly clear that their defense for everything will be that they were so terrified they would be responsible for another attack happening that they had to do all this completely illegal shit. But, [1] they know 9/11 was not an attack by Islamic terrorists, and [2] even if it had been, that is NO defense for the extent of the criminality of the last eight years.

Obama's expressed willingness to just let it go is appalling. His wishy-washy doublespeak about it all is infuriatingly politic, where politics DO NOT belong. The best possible thing to bring the people together and to win back respect from the rest of the world would be public investigations and prosecutions of all of the perpetrators, all of them, of the multifarious crimes of the * administration... including the bankers who fucked the world. It would restore everyone's faith in our system... in who we are. Over half of the existential stress out there now is not the loss of money itself; it is the disorientation, the inability to rely on our government to do the right things anymore. The economic situation is quite bad enough, but the failure to be America inside it is what really does the damage.

I mean it! Halliburton has to pay back the billions looted. Xe/Blackwater too. All of the cronies and all of the lawyers and all of the office holders, including complicit Democrats, up on the dock in a real justice system, or we quite simply are not who we say we are: We're a goddam banana republic with vicious plutocrats looting every source of wealth and autocratic power with impunity.

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