Now I'm totally depressed:this is the real effect of Bush breaking the law

and subverting the constitution. In other words, nothing. Another day at the office.


http://daoureport.salon.com/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=a6da2e05-c808-4f7e-9ab2-3d2a01a82a15

by Peter Daou

New The Dynamic of a Bush Scandal: How the Spying Story Will Unfold (and Fade) - The third button on the Daou Report's navigation bar links to the U.S. Constitution, a Constitution many Americans believe is on life support - if not already dead. The cause of its demise is the corrosive interplay between the Bush administration, a bevy of blind apologists, a politically apathetic public, a well-oiled rightwing message machine, lapdog reporters, and a disorganized opposition. The domestic spying case perfectly illuminates the workings of that system. And the unfolding of this story augurs poorly for those who expect it to yield different results from other administration scandals.

Here's why: the dynamic of a typical Bush scandal follows familiar contours...
1. POTUS circumvents the law - an impeachable offense.

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7. A few reliable Dems, Conyers, Boxer, et al, take a stand on principle, giving momentary hope to the progressive grassroots/netroots community. The rest of the Dem leadership is temporarily outraged (adding to that hope), but is chronically incapable of maintaining the sense of high indignation and focus required to reach critical mass and create a wholesale shift in public opinion. For example, just as this mother of all scandals hits Washington, Democrats are still putting out press releases on Iraq, ANWR and a range of other topics, diluting the story and signaling that they have little intention of following through. This allows Bush to use his three favorite weapons: time, America's political apathy, and make-believe 'journalists' who yuck it up with him and ask fluff questions at his frat-boy pressers.

8. Reporters and media outlets obfuscate and equivocate, pretending to ask tough questions but essentially pushing the same narratives they've developed and perfected over the past five years, namely, some variation of "Bush firm, Dems soft." A range of Bush-protecting tactics are put into play, one being to ask ridiculously misleading questions such as "Should Bush have the right to protect Americans or should he cave in to Democratic political pressure?" All the while, the right assaults the "liberal" media for daring to tell anything resembling the truth.

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There's more there..but this is going nowhere. With the three branches of government we have, the liars, the press the helps their lies, and the "opposition" not united and not brave enough to call them lies over and over and over until the laws broken, the lie told, are not seen as just "an opposing view" one that "Clinton might have done" it's another day at the office.

Somebody convince me I and the writer of this piece above are wrong!

is that powerful Democrats: judges, Congressmen, and movers and shakers in the DNC, already realize they've been targeted. Some judges outside the party also realize they've likely been targeted (think Fitzgerald and Earle). It's only a matter of time before GOP Congressmen who have needed to have their arms twisted to vote for bad legislation start to realize "Hey, that's how Karl found out about my mistress/stock sale/corporate bribe"

That's why this one isn't going to disappear. They could and did get FISA warrants to wiretap the Quakers and the Raging Grannies. They ducked the process to go after the well known and powerful. They knew those names would be recognized, and those warrants questioned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2327304

Peace.