More Bush Scandals -- So What?

So now the word seems to be rippling out about what has been going on in the Justice Department. Of course, bloggers have been shouting about how it was also going on in every department all along...and for once it seems like a few people beyond the bloggers actually care this time. I think at this point a majority of the informed opinion-leadership -- all the liberals and even some of the conservatives (David Brooks on the NewsHour tonight, for example) -- understand that the Bush administration has, basically, thrown away rule of law. The word "lawlessness" is coming up a lot.

But so what? We knew that. Great. Now more people know it. So what?

That's pretty much what Bush is saying, too. "So what? What are you going to do about it?"

And that's the question, isn't it?

Meanwhile, what does the public "know" in contrast to the opinion-leaders I mentioned? I scanned all three network news shows tonight and there was no mention of this supposedly huge scandal on any of them (unless I missed it).*

But even if the public found out about all of this bruhaha -- and cared -- again, so what? No one is going to prosecute anyone for anything. I mean, they own the Justice Department and that's part of what this is about -- blocking prosecutions. They replaced everyone with Pat Robertson graduates like Monica Goodling, and fired prosecutors who were going after Republican corruption so, please, don't try to tell me anyone is going to be prosecuted.

The only "rule of law" solution available is impeachment. That ain't going to happen -- there are enough "movement" Republicans in the Senate to block impeachment even if it got that far.

So...so what? Rule of law was so 20th-century.

Watch your backs.

* Update -- No, I didn't miss it -- the networks just are not covering it. Read Jamison Foser's Media Matters and Carpetbagger on this subject today.

-- Dave Johnson, Seeing the Forest