You're Not Supposed to Get Indicted
Wednesday's Washington Post reported:
To which Kevin Drum responded:
Low expectations is right. If I close my eyes I can picture Chris Rock:
"You're supposed to win that election. You're not supposed to get indicted. What do you want, a cookie? You low expectation havin' motha f----s!!!"
In a White House that had virtually forgotten what
good news looks like, the past few weeks have been
refreshing. A Republican won a much-watched
special congressional election. President Bush
recruited a Wall Street heavy hitter as Treasury
secretary. U.S. forces killed the leader of al-Qaeda
in Iraq. And now the architect of the Bush
presidency has avoided criminal charges.
To which Kevin Drum responded:
Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. The
GOP barely won a congressional election in a district
that's 60% Republican. After a year of looking, the
White House finally persuaded someone to become
Secretary of the Treasury. They killed a terrorist
they could have killed three years ago if they'd
wanted to. And Bush's top aide has "avoided
criminal charges."
Low expectations is right. If I close my eyes I can picture Chris Rock:
"You're supposed to win that election. You're not supposed to get indicted. What do you want, a cookie? You low expectation havin' motha f----s!!!"
posted by A.L. at 10:26 PM
4 Comments:
Bush Administration's new motto:
Lowered Expectations.
When you hang with the crowd that stole 2 elections, created 911, used that "northwoods" style event to launch wars based on lies, and oversee the theft of BILLIONS AND BILLIONS from the federal treasury by the military-industrial complex; not getting indicted is indeed a big deal.
Given the track record of former administrations of both parties, it seems to me that avoiding indictments is in fact a mark of success. Consider particularly the two-term administrations (and after all, it takes a while to gear up the whole disclosure, investigation, indictment process): Clinton, Reagan, Nixon/Ford. All three spawned a large number of indictments and a fair number of convictions or plea bargains. One-termer Carter had a few, and Bush I I think had some that could be considered carry-overs from Reagan.
I haven't counted up the numbers, but my guess is that by recent historical standards, the Bush II administration is doing pretty well in that department.
It's easy enough to say that in absolute terms you're not supposed to get indicted, but the only real standard to measure by is a comparative one. Modern politics and modern legal complexities are such that every administration will have indictments.
To this day, I don't know exactly what statute was supposed to have been violated by the Plame disclosure.
I don't blame "anonymous" for refusing to put out a link-the stupidity-based talking points that have been debubked into the ground many times over just make you look stupid when you try to use them. I'd be ashamed too, if this was all I had.
The wingers are all singing about Der Rovesmarschall managing to avoid an indictment and their coward Chimperor's surprise visit to Iraq (because he wouldn't dare announce he was coming now, would he?) Some "accomplishments" they have to brag about, no?
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