The reckoning?

Man so upset when his wife
didn't buy beer, shoots both
of the family's pet goats.

Is this, perhaps, finally, a moment of reckoning for the Republican party? How are they going to handle McClellan's claim that he was misled into lying about the outing of Valerie Plame by Libby, Rove, Cheney and Bush? These individuals knew what they were doing and entered into a conspiracy to "out" a CIA agent, a very serious crime if not an outright act of treason. Will they just try to ignore it like the NYT and the Washington Post, or will they try to make it look like some merely trivial act of no consequence? Will they continue to support Bush/Cheney in spite of this claim. Might I suggest that if they do just continue to support them the Republican Party has no further claim to being a political party. They will have become through their own acts a criminal conspiracy. In short, a sort of mafia. It will no longer be a contest between two political parties but will become a contest between the Democratic Party and a criminal underground (except in this case it won't really even be underground). Having consistently defended Bush/Cheney on their illegal "war," their torturing, their illegal spying, their incessant lying, their war profiteering, and so on, is there any reason to think they will change? By all that is right and proper, fair and decent, legal and moral, they should change. These charges by McClellan are just too criminal, too blatant, too public and too anti-American to just let pass.

And what of the Democrats? Will they just slink further back into their den of cowardice or will they, for once, stand up for what is right? This is, in my opinion, a very clear-cut case of right and wrong. And what Rove, Libby, Cheney, and Bush did in this instance was clearly wrong. But, as Bush/Cheney and the others, up until now, have never been held accountable for anything they've done wrong, why should I believe they will be held accountable now? I guess I probably don't believe they will, I just hope they will. Remember, "hope springs eternal," and all that. There seems to be little doubt hope will probably have to be eternal before any of our supposed "representatives" come to their senses (or admit to being part of a criminal conspiracy).

I am now 78 years of age. For most of these years I have listened, observed, and read widely. Why would I not be cynical?


LKBIQ:
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
Clive S. Lewis