July 02, 2007
George Bush, Crook
George W. Bush, nominal head of the criminal control fraud conspiracy that is bilking the American people of uncounted billions of dollars, at the expense of thousands of American lives and uncounted lives of Iraqis, has used the powers of his office to commute the sentence of his co-conspirator Scooter Libby. Libby will serve no prison time for the crimes he committed to obstruct Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the same criminal conspiracy.
This is clear-cut obstruction of justice; and since Bush obviously benefits from buying the silence of his co-conspirator, it is clear-cut conflict of interest as well.
This is the smoking gun. George Bush is a crook. He must be brought to justice.
I had a lovely time last Thursday on a day trip to the Hague. I look forward to the day George Bush arrives the Hague for a rather longer time, for a sojourn before the International Criminal Court.
Update: Josh Marshall points out that the manner of Bush's commutation of Libby's sentence violates standing policy of the Justice Department.
Posted by abostick at July 2, 2007 04:11 PMI also suspect Scooter threatened to tell who Jeff Gannon used to visit in the Whte House.
He was a fake reporter with no credentials. But he got White House press passes, where he attracted attention by his softball questions. He never quite asked if Iraq was a threat or a menace, but that was about as hard-hitting as his toughest question.
He interviewed Joseph WIlson, Valerie Plame's husband. He was subsequently questioned about the leak in the Plame case.
He turns out to have been a gay escort operating out of a site called hotmilitarystud.com. (No longer his, but still REALLY NSFW!) He advertised a lot of services, including military-style BDSM Topping and $1200 weekends. And since I saw the sites before they came down, I can assure you that the gentleman was well-muscled and well-hung or at least knew someone who could use Photoshop effectively.
So I suspect this is an attempt not necessarily to cover the criminal conspiracy to enrich Bush and his buddies at the expense of everyone else in the US -- and at the cost of thousands of lives. They've flaunted that in our faces. Remember Ken Lay and Enron? Cheney and Halliburton?
Nor is it an attempt to piss on the Constitution for the thrill of it. They must be so tired of that by now. Especially since Cheney has declared the Vice President isn't part of the executive branch. Maybe he figures that since God did not strike him dead on the spot, he's free to continue such specious reasoning.
No, I think this is an attempt to cover up something that in other circumstances, I would have no problem with, but that would create widespread dismay and desertion among the Administration's supporters on the Religious Right. I think someone in the White House is a kinky homosexual or bisexual.
Now, at least half the people I know are kinky, queer, or both, but then I don't mingle with Washington power brokers who campaign on their moral purity and the evilness of gay marriage.
The Administration's looting of the Treasury didn't make Bush loyalists turn a hair. The bloody disaster of the Iraq War has only slightly shaken their faith -- there are still 25% of voters in favor. The shredding of the Constitution has their fervent support -- concepts like the Bill of Rights are bloody unpopular with a lot of people and always have been. (What do you mean we can't torture suspected enemies or hold them in jail forever or search and seize at will? What kind of a democracy is this? We have to preserve our way of life!)
But the people who support Bush because they believe he is a Christian chosen by God to lead this country cannot tolerate the idea that someone chosen by God could desire another man.
Whoever the White House homosexual is, he's too close to Bush to allow the secret to get out. Because then the whole house of cards would come down.
