Retaliation Time!

"Well, let me just tell you, I believe to this day that they knew that the charges that they were trying to prove against the Clintons were not true. I think that they knew all along that the story David Hale had told them -- that Clinton had come to him and told him he wanted to borrow $300,000, but he couldn't have his name on the document, so Susan McDougal should come and sign the documents and give him the money -- was not true."
Susan McDougal - 2003 Buzzflash Interview

And so it begins...

Does the Bush administration expect to lose this election? And, if they do are they going to retaliate like they did against Bill Clinton for eight long and scandalous years?

Their main fundraiser, Republican "hammer", Tom DeLay, has been embroiled in a major campaign funds scandal and was reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee twice... THIS WEEK! The House wimped out and did not bar him from serving in the House, but slapped his wrists, both of em. Now, he must curtail his unethical fund raising activities. Maybe the Bushites were counting on DeLay's financial coercions to get more money for the attack ads they so desperately need. I don't know, but DeLay is arrogantly unapologetic. Read his comments.

Apparently, he is not to blame for his actions. It's the Democrats!

"For years, Democrats have hurled relentless personal attacks at me, hoping to tie my hands and smear my name. All have fallen short, not because of insufficient venom, but because of insufficient merit."

He must have overlooked the Republicans on the bi partisan, House Ethics Committee, who are trying to reign him in before he gets even more scandalous.

So... while Cheney fluffs off his blatant favoritism toward Halliburton during the VP debate and DeLay shakes off his wrist slapping, the Justice Department goes after Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign in pursuit of possible fund-raising violations?! Is this a lame attempt to get even with the Democrats?

If so, you'd think they'd go after someone who hasn't functioned successfully under a Whitewater microscope for twelve years. I'd bet anything that she's so squeaky clean, the only dirt they'll find is a lost receipt or two. Unlike DeLay, she's not bleating like a wounded sheep about partisan politics, but then, she doesn't live in the wingnut bubble either, insulated from reality and personal responsibility.

In last night's VP debate, Cheney was reminiscing about the good old days when Dems and Repubs could coexist and *gasp* even be friends! I developed an instant case of acid reflux just witnessing this hypocrisy. He just shook his head in bafflement wondering how those golden days had slipped away, meanwhile kicking Condi's butt to neutralize Bremmer's anti party line (e.g., the truth) about Iraq. I noticed that today's spin machine was especially virulent and frenzied. It reminds me of those little kids who react to bad news or criticism by holding their ears while babbling meaningless phrases to ward off the disapproval. The louder the noise the better.

The resurrection of investigating Clintons caused me to dust off Susan McDougal's book, The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk. McDougal was "detained" for twenty-one months in seven different jails for refusing to testify to Ken Starr against the Clintons. She spent seven weeks in "solitary confinement" in the mental ward of LA County jail. She was purposely taken from Arkansas and put in this hell hole to coerce a confession or statement. Finally she was tried publicly and her trial resulted in a hung jury who acquitted her on the charge of obstruction of justice and was divided on the contempt of court charge. She was released from jail that day.

McDougal claims it's the religious right that zealously pursued the destruction of the Clintons' reputation and political careers using any means to justify the ends. There is certainly that righteous element run rampant in the Bush administration and many other elements that would think nothing of hounding a person to bring down an opponent. Here we are again with another investigation of Hillary Clinton based on the word of another desperate con man. When will the Bushites put down the microscope and pick up the mirror?

And so it goes....