Right now!
Posted on 03/28/2007 3:49:47 PM PDT by goldstategop
When will Republicans learn to stop apologizing?
The Bush administration is embroiled in the most ridiculous non-scandal scandal in human history – set off when the administration stupidly apologized for firing its own employees.
U.S. attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President. The President may fire them for any reason at all. That includes not implementing the president's policy about criminal prosecutions. It also includes being in the way of someone else whom the president wants to appoint for patronage reasons.
Why wasn't a fuss made when Bush fired Donald Rumsfeld? He is every bit as much a political appointee as the U.S. attorneys are.
Democrats have the breathtaking audacity to claim that Bush's replacing his own political appointees is "politicizing prosecutions."
They say this as Sandy Berger walks free after stealing and destroying top-secret national security documents – but Lewis "Scooter" Libby faces decades in prison for not outing a covert agent. (Let's hope he's learned his lesson!)
They say this as Rep. William "The Refrigerator" Jefferson sits on the Homeland Security Committee while waiting for the $100,000 found in his freezer to thaw – but Tom DeLay remains under an indictment by some hick prosecutor in Texas for an alleged accounting violation.
They say this as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid draws interest on the sale of a property he sold in a complicated land swindle – but American hero Randy "Duke" Cunningham rots in prison.
They say this while Sen. Chuck Schumer pays no price whatsoever for his Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee having illegally obtained a copy of Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit report, for which one employee, Lauren Weiner, pleaded guilty, but served no prison time.
They say this while Sen. Teddy Kennedy is still at large (and getting larger).
Democrats have created a world in which a DNC card is a "get out of jail free" card, and "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" means "no doubt the defendant is Republican." (If Democrats keep this up, they'll have to rethink their push to give inmates the right to vote.)
Then they turn around and say Republicans are "politicizing prosecutions" by firing their own employees. And all Republicans can do is apologize.
I refuse to parse the inane allegations the Democrats are making, to point out that Clinton's wholesale firing of Republican U.S. attorneys was worse, or to mention that some of these U.S. attorneys should have been fired a long time ago (Carol Lam).
Bush should say: "We did it, it was political, and there's nothing you can do about it."
Then he should start holding hearings on Congress' obstruction of the war effort. Members of Congress should be asked to come before the administration's hearings and testify under oath about their commitment to victory. If they are not traitors, what do they have to hide? Surely they will be willing to state under oath that they are not undermining the war effort for partisan political gain.
The hearings could be televised in prime time: "Traitor or No Traitor?"
The President's investigatory power is better grounded than is Congress'. There is no "hearings and investigations" clause in Article I, describing Congress' powers, but the Recommendation Clause of Article II, Section 3 obligates the President to "from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union."
If the State of the Union is that we have a treasonous majority in Congress that is affirmatively undermining American national security, the President is constitutionally obliged to give Congress information to that effect. How can he make that judgment without gathering the necessary data?
While he's at it, the Bush hearings should look into the Democrats' hiring and firing practices. Were the dedicated staffers who worked on various committees while the Republicans were in control retained by the incoming Democrats? Or were some of those staffers fired because of their (gasp!) partisan affiliation?
Finally, just for the Democrats' mentioning Randy "Duke" Cunningham's name, Bush should pardon him immediately.
Admittedly, in this one case, the Republican was actually guilty of something. Cunningham took bribes – he didn't kill a girl at Chappaquiddick. To put it another way, the only thing Duke Cunningham ever sank was his own career.
And in one glorious afternoon over North Vietnam, Duke Cunningham did more for his county than the entire Democratic caucus will do in a lifetime.
The President has absolute authority to fire U.S. attorneys, hold investigative hearings and grant pardons. What's he worried about? That the media will be hysterical and Democrats will call him names? Constantly apologizing doesn't seem to have worked out too well for him either. How about doing something for the Americans who elected him?
Ah, but I see he has! As we go to press, news comes across the transom that Bush has withdrawn the nomination of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium because Democrats are upset that Fox gave a donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
There's no hope.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Incompetent, spineless wimps, that's today's GOP.
If BUSH doesn't veto this withdrawal bill, it is over for the GOP and possibly the USA as we know and love it .
Bush won't defend anything or anyone........................save for illegal immigrants.
He will fight to his death for them!
There's more that could be said about the Republican party, some of it printable, but that is an adequate summary. Just disgusting.
I've never thought a veto was in question. But if he doesn't, we'll become a great country in eclipse. The rest of the world will know we are weak; investors will go elsewhere; our military will go to rust.
The hearings could be televised in prime time: "Traitor or No Traitor?"
Well put!
This is really sad.
The presidency is a tough assignment and it's so easy to criticize. I probably haven't blasted George W. Bush except that time a SCOTUS seat was at stake, and I hated having to do it even then.
But reading this commentary from Coulter, I can only think she is erring on the side of leniency.
WRONG...
Coulter talking about the WHite RINO House...
Even Barney Fife would have made a better President..
What in heck does, "I'm a Unite'er not a Divide'er" actually MEAN?...
I'm beginning to think the same thing. If the few people who can do it don't, or can't, stand up to the blatant Stalinist tactics of the country's largest criminal organization, aka the Democrat Party, we are lost.
Doomed.
Frankly, I imagine Ann is getting worried about her own health and welfare. She is hitting too many bulls-eyes to allow her to continue unscathed.
It's already a done deal. Enjoy eight years of President Hitlery, everybody! And then a generation (at least) of God knows what.
I disagree with Ann on Cunningham. He deserved to go to prison.
The Pres should give a weekly speech in the vein of the excellent one he just gave - and expose the dems for every partisan, evil and unpatriotic thing they have done - over and over and over
It is getting so I hate to read anything the Republican leadership says, because all they do is placate and beg 'can't we all be friends?".
I'm sick to death of it.
Passive toleration of evil is called sanction of the victim. It appears we are losing our instinct for survival just like Europe has.
Bush is the ONLY one who can expose the Dems from the bully pulpit because the main stream media is looking the other way in every sleeze thing they do . I stand corrected . Mr NEWT would do it if still Speaker of the House .
I pray for the President to stand up to these Dem cowards in Congress and show some cajones. What does he have to lose now?
He seems more interested in trying to please the people who hate him, rather than the few remaining that want to support him. I am tired of him grabbing his ankles and taking it from the dems. I know that you are supposed to 'pick your battles wisely' but I am tired of waiting for years for him to pick a battle, wisely or otherwise.
What's scary is that all of the things that the Democrats get away, from the clintons up until today, are true legitimate crimes and are shoved under the carpet by GOP "leaders" in DC.
Seriously, where is our country heading?
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