Wow! The Democrats are pointing out how, when Bush invaded Iraq, he violated the UN Charter and thanks to the US Constitution that makes all international treaties (like the UN charter) domestic law, too, he violated domestic law, too?
Sadly, that's not what happened.
Oh! Well, then they're pointing out how Bush violated the 4th ammendment with his warrentless wiretapping program!
Nope, it wasn't that, either.
It turns out that they're going after Bush on a technicality. Check out an excerpt from that article:
House Democrats want President Bush to say whether he knew of what they call a "fundamental constitutional problem" with the $39 billion deficit reduction package he signed last month.
A letter to Bush, signed by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Henry Waxman of California and released Thursday, is the latest challenge to a bill that was passed in slightly different forms by the House and Senate before it was sent to Bush.
"A bill is not law unless the same version is passed by both the House and the Senate and signed by the president," top Democrats wrote to Bush. He signed it on Feb. 8.
The Senate version of the bill said Medicare can pay to rent some types of medical equipment for 13 months, as intended by congressional negotiators. A clerk erroneously wrote down 36 months before the bill was sent back to the House for a final vote, and that's what the House approved Feb. 1.
Yeah, talk about a technicality!
This is crazy though--they've got Bush on so many laws he's broken--I can't imagine why they don't just nail him.
There's the UN Charter/Iraq Attack thing that's a violation of both international and domestic law. There's this new wiretapping thing and then, my favorite old chestnut, the violation of the law banning covert propaganda. Bush violated that when his administration produced commercials for various Bush programs but made them look like news programs--they didn't source them to the US government--this is a violation of federal law.
Then there's the whole "betraying the public trust" thing. Clinton lied under oath about oral sex in the Oval Office and he got impeached. Bush got us in Iraq based on what ended up being untruths--whether you believe they were lies or not, they were wrong and in my job if I screw up as bad as Bush did I get fired.
So, anyway, they've got all that against Bush yet they go after him for a technicality.
Well, whatever--if the USG could get Al Capone for tax evasion, I'll settle for impeaching Bush on a technicality.
OH and that's not all we heard this week from the Democrats. Madeleine Albright penned [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-albright24mar24,0,5251258.story?coll=la-home-commentary|an opinion piece] for LATimes.Com slamming Bush for using a tragedy, not a strategy. Check out this clip:
THE BUSH administration's newly unveiled National Security Strategy might well be subtitled "The Irony of Iran." Three years after the invasion of Iraq and the invention of the phrase "axis of evil," the administration now highlights the threat posed by Iran รข€” whose radical government has been vastly strengthened by the invasion of Iraq. This is more tragedy than strategy, and it reflects the Manichean approach this administration has taken to the world.
It is sometimes convenient, for purposes of rhetorical effect, for national leaders to talk of a globe neatly divided into good and bad. It is quite another, however, to base the policies of the world's most powerful nation upon that fiction. The administration's penchant for painting its perceived adversaries with the same sweeping brush has led to a series of unintended consequences.
Understatement from the woman who reportedly said the millions of children who died thanks to the sanctions on Iraq was worth it.
Still, it's nice to see them damn Dems doing something--even if they still have a long way to go to having a full-on spine.
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