Is it anything like the Showcase Showdown on The Price Is Right, but instead of competing for fabulous trips and prizes, it’s the lifeblood of our democracy that hangs in the balance? And if your impeachment is within $100 dollars of other high-court proceedings, do you win both cases?
The Decider caterwauled, spittled, and sulked through a press conference yesterday, saying his testimony offer for Karl Rove and Harriet Miers in the U.S. attorneys drama – no oath, no transcript – was a sweet deal. He called them something like “faithful public servants.” How do you feel knowing your tax dollars pay Karl Rove’s salary? Blogger TBogg nailed the scene:
“One thing that is fascinating about George Bush is how little he has grown in office. No, that’s not right. It’s not that he hasn’t grown, he has gotten smaller; less Presidential, more sad little man watching his paper boat circle the drain. After six years of playing The Decider he should at least have a thin candy shell of gravitas as opposed to coming across like one of those guys on Peoples Court who not only has an unshakable belief that people won’t see through his bullshit, but that no one will notice his artful comb-over either.
As bad a president as George W. Bush has been … he is a worse person and it shows whenever he is under pressure; he melts down into a greasy little puddle of glares and smirks and incipient panic. But tonight was special. Tonights performance lays to rest any notion other than the fact that he’s not a very bright man who has nothing but contempt for a world that refuses to dumb down for him.”
Well, the House called his bluff this morning, issuing subpoenas for the two. And Atrios has a novel solution in case justice drag-asses it at the behest of the White House. Impeach Gonzales.
After six unprecedented years, someone’s got to hold their feet to the fire.
This article appears in March 16 • 2007.