Via Atrios…<\/p>\n
Weldon Berger says<\/a>:<\/p>\n
Bush and Cheney have broken the law consistently throughout their reign, often openly, and to the great detriment of our own country and others; when they obey it, they do so more as a matter of convenience than from any fealty to it or any fear of retribution. They’re pleased to use the legislature to achieve their ends when they can – as when Congress obligingly immunized administration personnel from prosecution under the War Crimes Act – and to ignore it when they can’t. Former Justice Department official Jack Goldsmith explains the dynamic<\/a> as described to him by Dick Cheney’s current number two, torture maven David Addington: "We’re going to push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop." They have, and that larger force has not materialized – and the administration have been at pains to ensure that the force, if it ever arrives, won’t do so in the person of the courts – and the result is a constitutional republic with its framework intact and its guts eviscerated<\/strong>. There is only one remedy, and that’s impeachment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
(Emphasis mine)<\/p>\n
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.<\/em>
\n-George Washington<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Washington was probably thinking about the democrats when he said that…<\/p>\n
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