With The One set to save us all (or, at least, his donor base and selected special interest groups) tomorrow, you’d think this sort of story wouldn’t pop up:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is receptive to the idea of prosecuting some Bush administration officials, while letting others who are accused of misdeeds leave office without prosecution, she told Chris Wallace in an interview on “FOX News Sunday.”
“I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it,” the California Democrat said. “And other things that are maybe time that is spent better looking to the future rather than to the past.”
Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced Friday he wants to set up a commission to look into whether the Bush administration broke the law by taking the nation to war against Iraq and instituting aggressive anti-terror initiatives. The Michigan Democrat called for an “independent criminal probe into whether any laws were broken in connection with these activities.”
President-elect Barack Obama has not closed off the possibility of prosecutions, but hinted he does not favor them.
“I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he told ABC News a week ago. “On the other hand, I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”
Smart Obama, dumb Pelosi, idiot Conyers – we’ll see where this leads. To be sure, we can expect that Obama’s Justice Department will only move on bogus charges generated by the kook left and Congressional allies if forced to do so…but a great deal of mischief can be done, as well has keeping the hatred of the past 8 years at a white hot level, which bodes ill for any cross-party cooperation in the long run.
Ultimately, this is related to one thing and one thing only – the fact that President Bush managed to prevent Al Gore from stealing Florida’s electoral votes in 2000. Some lefties can’t let it go and are still looking for revenge on it.
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