janelane wrote:

Bill Clinton was most certainly not impeached. And your last statement pretty much sums up the quagmire of deception that is the Bush Administration. Or, maybe Bush is just that stupid. The jury is still out.

-janelane, politically

Bush may be stupid, but that's not what this is about anyway. This is about all the very smart and very unethical people who surround him. It's about how those people craft a reality in which they get to do what they want and get away with it.

These people know what they're doing. I don't think any of them doubt what happened, or it's overall seriousness. I think they do know and don't care, because political power is more important than doing the right thing. I've become that level of cynical. And that's worse... if you're a zealot and a True Believer and just don't think anything wrong was done, then you're just foolish. If you downplay it because you know just how wrong and thus damaging it is, that's evil. It should disqualify one from public service.

sidenote, I'm 99% sure BC was actually impeached. IIRC it just means congress formally charged him. Removal from office is only one outcome, and dependent upon the revelations and truths that come from the proceedings. he was eventually censured, but not removed from office.

RE: Lawyers see charges this week in CIA-leak case