I don’t think I’ve seen a more pathetic electoral strategy, and under Karl Rove politics we’ve seen some pathetic strategies (giving more evidence to my belief that Rove just isn’t that good).
That was before the GOP situation got so desperate. The way I read the recent moves of Karl Rove & Co., they are preparing to wage war the only way open to them: not by touting George Bush, Lord knows, but by waging a national campaign to paint a nightmarish picture of what a Democratic Congress would look like, and to portray that possibility, in turn, as prelude to the even more nightmarish scenario: the return of a Democrat (Hillary) to the White House.
Rather than defend Bush, Rove will seek to rally the Republicans conservative grassroots by painting Democrats as the party of tax increases, gay marriage, secularism and military weakness. That s where the national message money is going to be spent.
The worst way the Democrats could respond to this abortion of a strategy is to act as if should they gain power that they won’t do the people’s work and provide the oversight of the executive branch as proscribed in our constitution. The Bushies believe that they’re put in Washington to fatten their own pockets and the coffers of the RNC. They work for us.
The GOP set the threshhold for presidential investigation by spending $70 million and five years to see if they could find a crime to pin on Clinton in the Whitewater deal. The result of all this investigation was of course that no crime could be demonstrrated to have taken place.
All that investigation JUST TO SEE IF A CRIME HAD TAKEN PLACE, before the Clinton presidency, in a deal where the Clintons lost money.
Then the GOP set the threshhold for impeachment, to wit, if the president tells a lie that is not a crime about an event that is not a crime, in a forum of absolutely no importance to the Republic, he should be impeached.
In order to comply with the GOP standard of presidential accountability, I suggest Congress appropriate $70 million to see if Mr. Bush has ever told a lie of importance to the Republic, and if he has, it’s impeachment central.
The sad part is only the threat of impeachment may persuade this administration to follow the law. It’s obvious nothing else is working.
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Don’t let history get in your way Repack. The original Clinton special prosecutor, Fiske, whom Starr replaced, was appointed by notorious Republican Janet Reno.
Its something of an oddity that ,seemingly,the most costly special prosecutors seem to have been appointed by the same side being investigated (Walsh was appointed by an R).
Dugger
Shhhh…. Don’t tell anyone, but it IS Another Rovian Conspiracy
yes, it’s truly diabolical to play up issues that have broad support and not simply play defense in an election year.
So did bush listen to John Kerry’s phone calls while they were campaigning? As the Decider, he had to, I suppose.