AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

In the early '70s during the Watergate exposure, we had a mainstream press that at least sometimes understood and performed it's adversarial role as far as not being stenographers for the government line.

We do not have a press like thast today, not even close. With this in mind, I have no confidence that either Bush or anyone in his gang will be called to account during their tenure. Bush will run out the clock and end his term as the abject failure he is.

Neither the press nor more than a few members of congress will really go after them; not the NYT, not the Dem leadership, and certainly not Repubs.

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

  I  agree with you BooMan. The tide is turning. As bad as it seems from our perspective, I cannot give up hope. EVERYTHING is changing. States are implementing the things their citizens want (see here and here).
  If you believe, like I do, in the American Democratic System, you have to believe that unconstitutional behavior will not be accepted, and not just by progressives, or liberals, but republicans, and centrists, and ANYONE else. When this Nation WANTS to change, it does. It sure seems like it wants to right now.

"War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving" ~ Scott Nearing My Blog

The way for this to happen is for the atmosphere for Republicans to become so toxic that they are willing to try and throw Cheney under the bus in order to save their own skins.

Without help from Senate Republicans, I don't see this as accomplishing anything...

On the stonewalling.  I think you hit the nail on the head (again) in noting that once they went down the road of unconstitutional acts, stone walling became the only alternative, since to admit it breaks the oath of office, and not to break it holds out the dim chance of political miracle.  The same kind of logic forced the Nazi regime to fight it right to the end.  After they murdering so many people in the ovens and elsewhere, they had no place to go.  It's called boxing onself into a corner.

Knut

This has all come about very quickly, a seeming grand confluence of bad news for our boys George and Dick.

I can't help but wonder how the floodgates were opened, and by who.  Sy Hersh has another article out (see ThinkProgress) where he talks about the boys' ongoing obession with bombing Iran.  Dick, according to Hersh, is once again ignoring the intelligence, and George is saying to anybody who'll listen that he's the modern-day incarnation of Churchill, and is going to be a hero in some nebulous future.

A month or two ago we were treated to a raft of articles that said both the pentagon and state were dead-set against bombing Iran (for reasons so obvious that it's astounding they'd even have to ennumerate them), so could it be that this is a last-ditch attempt to keep Dick from doing one of his famous end-arounds and to keep the lid on the nukes?

Wish on, Boo.

Like all the OTHER Fitzmasses past, this one will fizzle.

The Dems don't want it.

Business doesn't want it.

And the Rats don't want it.

Nope.

Not unless CheneyBush tries to impose some sort of martial law or other scheme to get the elections...the already fixed elections, as far as I am concerned...cancelled or "postponed". And I do not believe that they COULD manage that, because the working parts of the CIA/Intel system (as opposed...and I do mean "opposed"...to the appointed/anointed suits at the top) and the working parts of the military (Ditto on that system as well.) would not support them.

So it's going to be that old Chinese (w)oughta torture instead.

LAME DUCK TWISTING IN THE WIND.

Until such time as the string rots and the birds head back to their ranches for some much deserved rest and repatriation.

Sorry.

So it goes.

US Presidents don't go to jail.

They just fly south for the nuclear winter.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West