It was bound to happen. The new conservative movement hates reality and anything that impedes them from doing what they want. They are basically a group of three-year-olds, running around, murdering our country. The worst assault has been on the law. It has been systematic, subversive and probably irreversible.

In the final year of the George Bush presidency, the Justice Department is a complete and total joke. Republicans have used the Justice Department as a partisan tool, destroying the bedrock of our society: The Law. Of course, as they undertake the demolition of American laws, they rail against exactly what they are doing.

The rule of law, the very foundation for a free society, has been under assault, not only by criminals from the ground up, but also from the top down. An administration that lives by evasion, cover-up, stonewalling, and duplicity has given us a totally discredited Department of Justice. The credibility of those who now manage the nations top law enforcement agency is tragically eroded.

Guess where that came from? It was part of the 2000 GOP platform. Ha ha ha ha. Wow, what a bunch of glorious cunts. They were actually speaking of the Clinton Administration, a benign little cancer compared to the final stage AIDS patient that the Justice Department has become under Bush. It is even more amazing when one thinks of the trumped up, bullshit scandals created by the right during Clintons years in office. Cattlegate, Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate and getting blowjobs from a sad little lady Gate.

Since taking office, Bushs main objective has been to subvert the law, by placing partisan hacks in every office possible, while nominating partisan judges to the bench. This has been covered in the press, but nobody seems to give a shit. Remember Moncia Goodling? All she did was break the law by asking lawyers what party they belonged to when she was interviewing them at the Justice Department. Seems our government attempted to thwart this kind of bullshit back in 1883. At that time Congress passed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act to deal with this heinous activity, because it can completely undermine our democracy. The law was then strengthened in 1939 by the Hatch Act. Then, along came Bush and these laws were suddenly ignored.

Back before Bush, the Justice Department tried to hire the best and the brightest lawyers available. The Honors Program and Summer Law Intern Program at Justice, which helped snag grads from elite law schools, created a fast track. Once Bush took over, that nonsense was gone. Suddenly the most fucked up, religious lunatic graduating law school in the country was the Justice Department favorite. Regent University was started by Pat Robertson with the specific intention of creating an army of religious lawyers to turn America into a theocracy. And for whatever reason, those same religious nuts love to get on their knees and take the sweet cock of big business into their mouth. I guess its what Jesus would have done.

Monica Goodling spent years placing unqualified partisan hacks throughout the Justice Department. For them, allegiance to the all mighty George Bush is more important than allegiance to the law. These hacks completely destroyed the Justice Department Civil Rights Division. Before Bush, the division fought against systems set up to prevent minorities from voting. Now, the Civil Rights Division does what it can to prevent minorities from voting, including fighting for Voter ID laws across the country.

Among Republicans it is an "article of religious faith that voter fraud is causing us to lose elections," Masset said. He doesn't agree with that, but does believe that requiring photo IDs could cause enough of a dropoff in legitimate Democratic voting to add 3 percent to the Republican vote.

Wow, they actually just come out and say it and nobody seems to care. Royal Masset is a former director of the Texas Republican Party, so Im going to assume he knows what he is talking about. The US Attorney scandal occurred because some attorneys were fired after they refused to prosecute Democrats on trumped up voter fraud charges. Eight were fired. But what about the ones who werent fired? It seems they did as ordered.

Between 2001 and 2006, the Justice Department initiated 375 investigations of public officials. Out of that number, 298 were Democrats and 67 Republicans, or as it is known on the street, GOP anal rape. We now actually have former high-level government official being held as a political prisoner. But that's nothing to worry about, right?

Bush has accomplished such a wonderful feat by not just packing the Justice Department with partisan hacks, but also my packing the federal bench with partisan hacks. He uses his religious lunatic following, promising them anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage judges and then places pro-business and pro unitary executive judges on the bench. Which means the damage of this reckless and anti-democratic administration will continue for years.

Bushs actual appointees to the federal bench dont necessarily adhere to a socially conservative worldview. What they hew to is the presidents vision of executive authority. They are willing to sacrifice the conservative ideal of states rights if it means limiting environmental protection, and they are willing to abandon the conservative principle of limited government if it means shoring up the so-called unitary executive. They do have an agenda, but it is not the agenda of the Christian right. It is the agenda of George Bush.

The crazy bastards who set up this country actually foresaw this sort of problem and created a safety net called Congress. Thankfully, Congress has put up the kind of fierce resistance one would expect from tissue paper. 95% of Bushs nominees have been approved, no matter how insanely pro-business or blatantly partisan. And they are doing God Bushs work.

Over a third of Bushs nominees to appellate courts and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims during his first termtwenty-one of fifty-nine nominations since 2001had previously worked as lawyers or lobbyists for the oil, gas, and energy industries.

A 2004 study by the Environmental Law Institute found that in National Environmental Policy Act lawsuits at the district-court level, pro-environment plaintiffs won 46 percent of the time before all judges, but they prevailed only 28 percent of the time before Republican appointees and 17 percent of the time before Bush appointees.

The only way to get rid of these judges is to impeach them but we all know there is a far better chance of Jesus birthing from my anus. Hey, at least the US Attorneys can and will be fired if a Democrat takes over. But dont expect any president to give up the power Bush has taken. They may not abuse it, but they arent going to give it up. It will sit there, waiting for the next president who doesnt give a shit about Democracy to come along. For that, you can blame Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, for not doing their job when the country needed them most.

At this point, the White House is publicly humiliating Congress for being amazing pussies. The administration is so brazenly breaking the law that they just destroy evidence, knowing no one will hold them accountable. The time to impeach has come and gone.

There are no brave, honest politicians like there were in the days of Richard Nixon. Who thinks the current House Judiciary Committee would vote for the impeachment of Bush, even when presented with overwhelming evidence? They voted 21-17 to bring the articles of impeachment against Nixon, for far less egregious crimes. This has set a very dangerous precedent, especially for a group of right wing revolutionaries. Future Republicans now know what to do.

There is no turning back the clock now. It is not if our country will be undone, but when. The right wing will build upon the destruction of Bush when they place their next idiot in the White House, whether that is next year or in 10 years. The next one will start right where Bush left off, because this is not the doing of one man, but the concerted effort of a group. A group no one in our government has the courage or brains to take on. The right wing knows the best way to undermine this country is to control the law, to make the law, to own the law. They now have the Supreme Court, thousands of judges, and the Justice Department packed full of people who don't seem to give a shit about democracy.

Without the rule of law, we will be done. I, personally, think we already are.

mattacme

Calistoga, CA

February 2006

MAR 27, 2008 06:27 AM

As you accurately point out, none but a handful of us seems to care. For some reason none have cared since Reagan took over for Carter. Remember Iran Contra? I remember thinking "they're caught now" and looking on in astonishment as North & Pointdexter grandstanded to the seeming delight of the nation, clearly lying and clearly covering for Ronnie and clearly running amok with our Constitution. Where was the outrage? It was waxing its new boat or watching its new TV, because trickle down economics was going to save the country and we would live in a "Shining city on a hill". .

I've said it before; I'm a pissed off New Deal Democrat who is shocked that we have not been driven to open revolt. The Neocons in particular should be considered public enemy No. 1 by everybody who has to work to support themselves (meaning most everybody) but for some reason they are in the White House and actually controlled Congress for a good long time. I do not get it.

Coyotemike

USA

May 2006

MAR 27, 2008 07:15 AM

bald_eagle said:
If we can just hold on until 1/20/09, maybe we can reverse the trend.

But yeah. It's just as bad as FTR is making it out.

It's going to take generations to under the damage this one president has done.