BUSH-LEAGUE CRAFTINESS

Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race–small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Stangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. (emphasis HH)

–Chief Sitting Bull, speaking at the Powder River Conference in 1877

Ponder the words of a real chief as you consider Lord Bush’s bravado at yesterday’s press conference, and his continuing hubris regarding the war and the freedom’s of individual Americans.

Yeah, I’m still pissed off about it.

The issue of the brewing crisis involving the US Attorney firings has still been bouncing around in my head the entire day, mostly in relation to my previous post.

Bugging me, bugging me, bugging me. Something about it wasn’t quite right, and I knew it at the time but couldn’t quite nail it down. Bush being a smug tough guy yesterday was something we mostly only hear about. I mean, he’s been differing degrees of yesterday, but never quite yesterday.

He seems to be actively seeking this fight. This is what has been bothering me.

Back and forth, all day long, I have questioned myself about being too far out with this nuisance train of thought tumor. It appears that I’m not alone, as I found a link to this waiting in my inbox this afternoon.

“If they lose this showdown, they lose their leverage in investigating NSA spying, the DeLay/Abramoff-financed Texas redistricting, Cheney’s Energy Task Force, the political manipulation of science, the Plame outing… everything.”

Crafty bastards.

My thoughts earlier were centered around the fact that when stripped down to its bare technicalities, it really may be permissible for the administration to fire these attorney’s even though the “why” of the firings is particularly odious. It seemed to me all day long that they could very well secure themselves a legal wall on this basis alone, halting any move forward and weakening the resolve and political strength to pursue the more concrete investigations on which they really ought to be focusing with equal, if not greater, vigor.

IANAL, and there is great likelihood that the above is not absolutely correct for a variety of reasons. Chief among these, I Am Not A Lawyer. Absolutely correct or not, it should get illustrate the underlying nag, which is that this just seems too easy and that Bush seems to want this just a little too much.

Kos had on different glasses, but seems to come from the same angle. The fact that this seems to be a real possibility quite frankly scares the Bong Hits 4 Jesus out of me.