[kstewskis]

On 9/12/01, the current administration could have cleansed the government of this nest of vermin - whose dereliction of duty was a major cause of the terrorists being able to carry out the attack of the previous day. The Republican House could have moved to impeach the 'magnificent seven' or simply de-fund the DC court.

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I've been wondering about this myself this since 9/12. Why didn't Bush just "flush" and start over?

[lentulusgracchus]

Why didn't Bush just "flush" and start over?

I've often wondered about this myself. I think there are several reasons.

1. The Clintons would have loved for Bush to spend all his political capital backing a Ken Starr prosecution of the Clintons that the Clintons knew would go nowhere, because (as the article points out) the Clintons had frozen the deck. They had a) pandered to black voters (jurors) shamelessly, b) compromised the Justice Department and seeded it with their moles, and c) introduced "their" judges, here called the "Magnificant Seven".

2. Bush himself may be vulnerable. I've seen allegations (on DU and elsewhere) that Mena's importation project supplied well-connected people all over the country from both political parties with a top-drawer source of drugs -- no icky visits to the bad part of town for them. The allegations include one that puts Dubya at the Mena Airport to pick up some product from Barry Seal and the rest of the Clinton/Contra crew. I wouldn't be surprised if Clinton gumshoes have a file of photographs of dozens of well-known people dropping in at the Dew Drop Inn in Mena.