Posted by: zanshin, 2008-07-29 06:22

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Impeachment Hearing: Bush Dead-Enders Make One Last Stand
Jon Ponder, 2008-07-28 (Monday), Brad Blog
Ranking Judiciary Republican: It seems 'We Are Hosting an Anger Management Class'
Calfiornia Rep. Lungren: Nothing But a 'Friday Morning Show Trial'


Prospects are so bad for Republicans in the Senate that Sen. Mitch McConnell, their embattled leader, has given them free reign to vote against the party and, certainly, their unpopular president, if it will help them save their seats in November.

In stark contrast, Republicans in the House are apparently determined to follow Bush in lockstep over the cliff (to mix multiple metaphors), or at least that's the impression they gave at the impeachment hearing last Friday --- which was officially titled "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitation" --- when GOP Judiciary Committee members put on a show of the sort of blind loyalty to George Bush that put their party in its dire predicament in the first place.

One by one, these pols --- all of them the sort of Republicans who give white guys a bad name --- took turns lashing out at the proceedings and trying to spin Bush's crimes as insignificant and morally relative to other president's misdeeds. At worst, it was a disgusting display of complicit politicians trying to save their own skins by fending off any pursuit of justice for Bush. At best, they came off a bit comically, like vampires in movies clawing and snarling at sunlight just seconds before they meet their doom.

Speaking of horror, a prime example of growling and back-biting --- not to mention outright lying on the record --- was the performance of Rep. Steve King of Iowa (who is not related to the novelist Stephen King).


"And as I've watched the Bush administration every day in the seven and a half years," King said, "I didn't see anything along the way that would have indicated to me by an objective judgment that we would be sitting here with these impeachment hearings today." And later, "I would point out that it would be pretty rare if you could find anyone out in the crowd who could actually say what it is that [Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff] Scooter Libby actually did."

That was a rhetorical statement, of course. There were probably any number of people in the room who could have told King that Libby was convicted on one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and one count of making false statements to federal investigators, and that he is the highest ranking White House official to be convicted of a crime since John Poindexter was convicted in the Reagan-Bush Iran-Contra scandal.

King is best known for saying that the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was no worse than a fraternity hazing. In March, he made news when he said that terrorists "will be dancing in the streets" if Barack Obama is elected president.

Even worse than King, however, was Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who trotted out tired and tattered GOP terror politics, first by eliding the nefarious aims of bin Laden to gain nuclear power with those of his mortal enemies who run the Iranian regime, and then by implying that by holding the hearing, the Democrats were helping the terrorists:

The coincidence of jihadist terrorism and nuclear proliferation, I believe, is one of the most dangerous circumstances facing the human family today. Osama bin Laden says, quote, it is our duty to gain --- our religious duty to gain --- nuclear weapons. And every day, Iran continues to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon. Terrorists bide their time. Mr. Chairman, there may well be a day when we all wish that we could revisit this day again, and when we could try to reorder our priorities and perhaps better appreciate a president who was willing to subordinate his popularity with the American people in order to protect them. Mr. Chairman, I know that the full committee does not address itself to any of these subjects today. Instead, it conducts a do-over hearing that amuses our terrorist friends [sic] greatly and that would make Alice in Wonderland roll her eyes.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the ranking member, set the tone for his party's studied unseriousness about the proceedings: "This week it seems that we are hosting an anger management class."

Rep. Dan Lungren, the last Republican attorney general of California, articulated the minority's position: "Maybe what we're here for is something called impeachment lite. . . . We're sort of in that Never-Neverland of accusing the president of impeachable offenses but not taking actions to impeach him, which I guess impugns him but does not impeach him, but maybe it has the same effect in the court of public opinion."

And:

"One wonders what we are becoming here. When I was a kid growing up, we used to watch Friday night fights. Now it looks like we have the Friday morning show trials."
For a flavor of the Republicans' comportment, here are excerpts extracted from a recap of the hearing by Mikel Weisser at OpEd News :

GOP loyalists uniformly outraged over the very essence of the hearings Ranking Repug Lamar Smith hissed loudly the mantra of the GOP objections: congressional consideration of the numerous lies, deaths, unjust imprisonments, and misspent billions of President Bush amounts to "the criminalization of political partisanship." In other words the problem is not that Bush and his supporters committed these heinous acts, but that they were members of the Republican Party and those complaining about their actions are members of the Democratic Party.

[...]

Trent Franks stuck to his message of dismay that the terrorists are winning and that there were many notable Democrats who also called for a War on Iraq based on claims of WMDs. He also did a rousing review of quotes to demonstrate how much the terrorists hate us for our freedom. "And somehow we're going after this president you has done everything in his power to protect us." Of course, in putting together his terror routine, Franks failed, as so many GOP leaders do, to mention that the American public and politicians were operating on intelligence supplied by Bush in the first place. When Swartz tried to comment Franks concluded his turn rather than let him speak. He also mentioned that by focusing on "fairy tales" instead of terrorists, all there that morning should be ashamed.

[...]

Rep. Louie Gohmert R-TX condemned most of the witnesses, reminding them that if misleading to congress is a criminal offense they should consider their "brash allegations." Gohmert focused on Clinton's earlier failures and poor President Bush who "naively" "accepted" "Clinton's lies" about Iraq WMDs. He further claimed that Joe Wilson started speaking out to protect his friends in France who were scamming the UN oil for food deal. He also added, like Franks that the focus of the day should have been on the terrorists, not the innocent, though naive president. The biggest problem right now is that the Supreme Court had just voted to "release terrorists on American soil."

[...]

Dan Lungren, R-CA, addressed Holtzman and Bugliosi and returned to the popular Republican phrase, the criminalizing of political difference of opinion. He looked back to earlier presidential abuses including the little mentioned tale of Wilson having political cartoonists imprisoned for unfavorable cartoons. He also likened Japanese Internment to Nixon's post-presidential tax investigations and said the Democrats were "tantamount to overcharging the case." He asked if impeachment is the proper tool. Turning to Rabkin and Presser for support, Lungren interrupted Presser and himself to complain that people in the audience were holding signs.

[...]

The last to speak, Dan Lungren, R-CA, came back to the microphone to say that "there is an essential difference between an misstatement of facts and an intentional misstatement;" and as a former prosecutor he knows such allegations are easily made and hard to prove, it's "a long road;" only to find himself cross-examined by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, on whether or not the faulty and misleading intelligence reports Bush gave to Congress rises to the level of lying. Again Lungren used the opportunity to complain about the crowd behavior. Conyers apologized for the crowd's behavior and said disrupters would not be invited back to this chamber. After that, citing Eisenhower's memoirs, he justified Bush's choice to have faith in the intelligence we had and we should accept his good will and intentions. Like Eisenhower, Bush merely "made a decision based on the best intelligence he had."

"The way this has been portrayed as a president chomping at the bit to violate the Constitution is just unreasonable," Lungren concluded. Nadler countered that the issue wasn't about the quality of the intelligence Bush had, but that prima fascia Bush selected the information he wanted to use and hid the rest from the world community. Lungren stuck to his guns despite a final effort to challenge him by Rep Scott.

A pro-Bush witness called in by the GOP dismissed the proceedings this way:

"I am really astonished at the mood in this room," commented ... George Mason University School of Law professor Jeremy Rabkin. "The tone of these deliberations is slightly demented," Rabkin said. "You should all remind yourselves that the rest of the country is not necessarily in this same bubble in which people think it is reasonable to describe the president as if he were Caligula."
By "the rest of the country," Rabkin, of course, meant "Fox News viewers" --- not the 55 percent of Americans who believe George Bush has abused his power in a way that rises to an impeachable offense.

All in all, it was as sad and sickening a display by the Republicans as we have seen since they lost control of Congress. It was sad because these are the same Republicans who became complicit in Bush's bullying and malfeasance by enabling him at every turn --- and it is always depressing to see enablers in an abusive relationships kowtowing to their abusers.

And it was sickening because, on Friday, as they have done since Bush assumed power in January 2000, these pols put their fealty to Dear Leader, the Republican Party and their own political futures ahead of the good of the country and their own oaths to uphold the Constitution.

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2007-09-21Why Capitalism Needs Terror: An Interview with Naomi Klein
2007-09-24Betrayed -- The Iraqis who trusted America the most
2007-10-21Cheney Targets Iran
2007-10-17Iran: Nuclear programme
2007-10-31Increasing danger of war through Incomprehension between United States and Iran
2007-11-01Noam Chomsky - Controlled Asset Of The New World Order
2007-11-02Vice President's Remarks to the Heritage Foundation
2007-11-09HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE?
2007-11-20The Neoconservative Moment
2007-11-20Whose War?
2008-02-04Chomsky on World Ownership
2008-02-01Iraq: The Way Out -- Transcript
2008-01-30The two faces of Amis
2008-01-31The North American Union and the Larger Plan
2008-01-24The Three Rs: Rivalry, Russia, ’Ran
2008-01-27Time to Secede? -- Breaking Away From a Bankrupt State
2008-03-03Mead: Bush Administration Gets Improving ‘Grades’ in First Year of Second Term’s Foreign Policy
2008-02-22Conversations in International Relations: Interview with John J. Mearsheimer (Part I)
2008-02-22Conversations in International Relations: Interview with John J. Mearsheimer (Part II)
2008-02-23The Two Faces of Saudi Arabia
2008-03-24Chalmers Johnson: “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic”
2008-03-06"Victory Would be a Fata Morgana"
2007-12-19Bush Administration Credibility Suffers After Iran NIE Report
2007-12-15Why We Should Oppose an Independent Kosovo
2007-12-18Time for smart power
2007-12-10Moment of Reckoning
2007-12-13Bilderberg 2007 - Towards a One World Empire?
2007-12-07A new Chinese red line over Iran
2008-01-02Turkish accession to the European union: challenges and opportunities
2008-01-04Why Iraq? Oil and U.S. Foreign Policy
2008-01-08Iran Becomes an Issue In Democratic Contest
2013-01-28War And Debt -- The Debt Ceiling Debate That Didn't Happen
2013-02-09It Has Happened Here -- The Police State Is Real
2013-03-19The Second Iran Hostage Crisis -- Will Beijing Call Washington's Bluff?
2013-05-05Imperialism Is Now Murdering Stories -- Welcome To The Machine
2011-08-18A "humanitarian War" On Syria? Military Escalation. Towards A Broader Middle East-central Asian War?
2011-03-29America Blows It On Bahrain
2009-06-07The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance -- The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
2009-06-09Cartoon Korea -- Filtered to Fit -- How The Media Keep Us Angry, Ignorant And Afraid
2009-05-21The American Way: In Defense of George W. Bush
2009-05-20Funds to Close Guantánamo Denied
2009-06-01Obama's Cairo Speech
2009-05-10Country Reports on Terrorism 2008 -- Chapter 2. Country Reports: Europe and Eurasia Overview
2009-05-08A Leadership Review of the Barack Obama Administration
2008-12-27Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor
2009-01-11Globaloney
2008-12-07Are Key Obama Advisors in Tune with Neocon Hawks Who Want to Attack Iran
2008-12-18Transcript: Cheney Defends Hard Line Tactics
2009-02-22Prosecution for Bush War Criminals
2009-01-18The Necessary Violence of the Murderous National Bully
2008-10-25The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State
2008-10-22Colin Powell endorses Obama
2008-10-22Omid Safi - Who Put Hate in My Sunday Paper?
2008-10-29Sarkozy, France, and Nato -- Will Sarkozy’s Rapprochement To Nato Be Sustainable?
2008-10-16Bailout Continues on Global Scale; Are We Becoming the Weimar Republic?; ACORN Facing Allegations of Voter Fraud
2008-11-14The US gas garrison -- Energy self-sufficiency not military escorts for oil
2008-11-13Conned Again? -- Obama, Rahm-bo and the End of the New American Century
2008-11-09Obama to Face Big Policy Decisions on Iran, N. Korea and Mideast
2008-11-10The Eurabian Revolution
2008-11-23The American Mission?
2008-11-24Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World -- Executive Summary
2008-11-19Leonid Ivashov: September 11, 2001: A Global Provocation
2006-11-07TURKEY AND THE AZERBAIJANI OIL CONTROVERSIES: LOOKING FOR A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE PIPELINE
2006-11-18Impeach the American People!
2006-11-19Bolivia's Leader Solidifies Region's Leftward Tilt
2006-11-22Full text: Vladimir Putin interview
2006-11-26Islam, Terror and the Second Nuclear Age
2006-11-28Maybe Bush's People Will Follow the Law Now: Margaret Carlson
2006-12-04Afghanistan: No blood for oil - this time
2006-12-03The Next War
2006-12-02Oceans apart
2006-11-02World entering dangerous era of US impotence
2006-10-27The Fault Lies In Ourselves
2006-10-31Iraq and the Problem of Peak Oil
2006-10-26Blaming the lobby
2006-10-25The new Great Game
2006-10-01Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism
2006-10-13Interview Vali Nasr
2006-09-17Triple-pronged Jihad -- Military, Economic and Cultural
2006-09-11Bush's great fear: Three little words
2006-09-12The Shadow Party
2006-09-09Foreign policy year in review