From our host's front page,
Your Take #26:
Then about six weeks ago, I noticed that my enthusiasm[anger?]
was gone. My outbursts seemed to be out of place in the hospitable and civilized political arena President-elect Obama was attempting to create. I get it now. I understand that he is trying to restore rational discourse between opposing ideas to synthesize an effective solution.
Now I feel uneasy when I hear people criticizing Mr. Bush. They seem out of step. I wonder if this can last.
I wonder if other people will get it.
Get it? Get it?
Here's what I wonder:
After reading this, and other posts from around the left blogosphere, I wonder if there will be enough people left who ARE angry about the last eight years. I wonder if there will be enough people left who know the only rational and mature step to take in regards to the last eight years. That step is this: Investigate. Then prosecute. Then arraign, conduct trials, reach verdicts, and SENTENCE.
Do we, or do we not want another criminal in the White House? Because the best, most effective way we have to ensure the next President will NOT break the law is to PUNISH THE PRESIDENTS WHO DO break the law.
This has little to do with the heat of anger. It's very simple. You break the law, you pay the price. You don't break the law, you don't face prosecution. Forget any pathetic claims of 'protecting the nation' or 'national security'--especially when those investigations will finally show even the most skeptical, once and for all, that Bush was spying on all of us, illegally and without warrants, BEFORE 9-11, and that Cheney's Energy Task Force drew up maps of Iraq's oil fields, BEFORE 9-11.
Do not forget this: Anger is a map. It is the stimulus for taking that first step. After that, it's all a matter of consequences for behavior.
Ironically enough, how many times have I heard from Bush supporters that Saddam had to pay the consequences of his actions? That Muslim terrorists need to face the consequences of their choices? That we had no choice but to 'punish' Saddam, the Taliban, Muslim extremists, even unto the ends of punishing innocents? We had to punish John Walker Lindh, the Afghan who threw a grenade at an invading U.S. soldier, every charity that 'helped' terrorists, even the Syrian/Canadian pulled off a flight landing in New York, just for having a certain last name?
They have packed the Justice Department with loyal Bushies. They fired good honest Republican US Attorneys for not being LOYAL enough to Bush. They lied to us nonstop for eight long years--lies that cost us an unbelievably high pile of debt, death and destruction--a statement of little or no exaggeration.
I am being told to make peace with these criminals, by the above voice. As if letting bygones be bygones is the only mature, civilized way to deal with them. As if they were innocent of any crimes, let alone evil intentions.
I cannot do that. I cannot just forget the political trauma of the last eight years-plus, including the stolen election.
Send them to prison. Or, at the very least, TRY. Because that is the only place George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Condaleeza Rice, et al, belong. No more criminal kleptocracies passing for United States government. Make this one the LAST one.
And that will be change
I can believe in, if the first step is ever taken.
