Being On The Offensive - Investigate Everything

Usually when this Conservative Administration does something illegal there is some huffing and puffing from Democrats, but no Houses are ever blown down.  Today, a story came out about another crime of Bush's and while I figured that this news would be met with awkward thumb twiddling by Democrats (akin to when a transcript of a Downing St. meeting from July, 2002 was leaked to The Sunday Times stating that Bush and Blair conspired to get an Iraq war no matter what, and that it effectively began a year before the March 2003 invasion)

Well, I was wrong: Chris Dodd is demanding our new "non political" Attorney General Mukasey investigate a White House cover up that goes right to Bush himself.  I'll tell you why this is important in a moment.  First, the outrage.

It started when I read this post over at Wonkette about former WH spokesman Scott McClellan's "my job as a liar" memoir and the oopsie bombshell he drops in the book.  Which specific lies, you ask?  There are so very many to choose from -- no, the big one Scottie describes in his book is the about the CIA leak case.  Where our Executive Branch jeopardized National Security...

“I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff and the president himself.”

Hey, whoa, what? Our bitter snitch explains that he trusted this president: "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” Cry me a fucking river, asshole. 

Wait, but what?  George Bush thought that lying about him breaking the law...  would get his credibility ...back? 

So George Bush made the decision to break laws and undermine the security of the nation in a time of war by exposing the identity of an operative working in South Asian nuclear non-proliferation - and by extension, he cut loose all of of the operative's associates and informants.  All to get his credibility ...back?

Holy retarded Texan shit.

And that's the thing.  If any of us hope to survive another year we have to keep this posse in the White House occupied.  This is a great way to do it.  Because if we leave them alone, they are going to take an ax to everything on their way out.  The next president will find a government wholly dismantled with key screws missing - safeguards removed, you name it... 

The big things will be the plants, conservative movement loyalists plugged into key offices, there will be moles, rules changed by executive order, holes opened up in the framework.  Dozens of executive orders destroying everything from our national parks, to regulatory agencies, to international treaties, to vital Departments in government like Justice, for God's sake. 

The mind boggles. The forces of destruction work much faster than the forces of creation.  It takes longer to build a city on a hill than it does for a Tsunami to wash it away.

The other thing is that we can't allow these criminals to shred every piece of paper in the place - an investigation with an subpoenas will save much of it.  We also can't let this conservative presidency get away with not being remembered as the most hated, criminal, and destructive band of crooks since, well, ever.  This will help. 

America needs to have daily reminders that if you put conservatives in government, they destroy everything.  Too often, Democrats complain that the country is being destroyed by conservative policy, but let it happen anyway.  

Guys, follow Dodd's lead: investigate everything.  Bush already made clear he is going to veto any legislation constructive in nature, he's hell bent on destruction...  so tie him to a chair under oath and grill him for the next 425 days.  Hell, waterboard him.