Must have been quite the holiday party at the vice president's house this week: old chums Dick Cheney and Karl Rove tossing back a few eggnogs and talking about the possibility of a preemptive presidential pardon. Or evaluating the first steps of the Bush Legacy Project. No doubt there was a lot of backslapping when Fox's Chris Wallace stopped by. Earlier in the week, Wallace had vociferously defended Bush against criticisms leveled by Frost/Nixon filmmaker Ron Howard at a screening of the film. At the VP's party, a "genuinely grateful" Cheney thanked Wallace for standing up for the president and promised him "a special exit interview" in a couple of weeks. Should be very fair and balanced. In other holiday party news: the Treasury Department holiday bash will be held in the department's "Cash Room." Emptiest room in the place, I suppose.
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By Hermie Rotea
Why lame-duck President George W. Bush and lame-duck Vice President Dick Cheney are so concerned about their legacy to the extent that they have brainstormed on the quesstion with idea chums like Karl Rove and Chris Wallace, is beyond our comprehension.
Having recklessly plunged the United States into the quagmire of Iraq and Afghanistan wars, wasted billions of dollars into their imperialistic misadventures in the Middle East, and after pushing the national economy to the edge of a great depression, what do they expect?
If they thought that history would be kind to them, they are obviously in self-denial and dreaming of the impossible. After committing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and causing the current economic crisis, they are so discredited and vulnerable to criminal prosecution.
They should be ashamed and should not have the face to still justify the unjustifiable. It is not enough that they apologize and atone for their sins and crimes. They should be dealt with in accordance with law and history.
RAMOS AND COMPEAN???
Look for totally outrageous behavior on the part of these two criminals; we're talking preemptive pardons, pardons for Scooter, Clemens, Abramhoff . . . the whole panolopy of criminals past, present and future.
Our only hope is Obama coming through on his campaign promise to sic the Justice Department on criminal behavior that occured during the last eight years in this Administration. Hope they have the funds to hire the thousands of lawyers that will be needed in this pursuit.
will provide role models in all three branches of government that the voters,
their children and grandchildren can look up to.
What a dramatic change that will be. I suspect the citizens of all countries
in the world will applaud this wonderful transformation.
Where it is true that compared to other governments, we weren't that bad under Bush, however, as the "most powerful person in the world" Bush trashed the Constitution, trashed the Bill of Rights, totally corrupted the Department of Justice, invaded a foreign country under false pretenses, diverted our national wealth to his corporate buddies, and ruined the economy for the middle class.
I wish you well and let's hope we all have a brighter future with responsible leadership. We are on our way there and hope you will soon, also.
i was in the US for the elections and i described how I jumped with joy and cried together with the majority of north americans, for your wonderful gain in spite of all the crisis, or because of the crisis... and by contrast i also cried for our loss. for what we are eons from. i feel it close and personal since my two girls are residents and my grandchildren are little 'gringos'.
i'm just saying that even though it was bad, at least you DO have the mechanisms, the institutions, the independence of powers to overcome any partisanship or politicos lobbying, even if bush would pardon them. you still have the ways and the means to see them someday in hague.ours is much slower, filled with all kinds of obstacles and corruption but we have already beat him twice to his pretense of being re elected chavez goes beyond trashing our constitution. just believe me when i tell you that he calls her "the bitch" :'(
Now, Rove is writing a book in which he will name "Bush Haters" (from Think Progress), much like Nixon had an enemies list. This just confirms that Republicans tend to split the world into for and against, good and bad. You are either one or the other.
Cheney and Rove are walking away after 8 years very rich men while we are in a depression. The three of them, W. Bush, Cheney and Rove, make me physically ill to think about the destruction they forced on this country. Thanks for pointing out this party and who was there.
How can Wallce be included in any group of good newspeople?