Today, the New York Times (and others) reported that Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, has been indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice. Wow. I wish I could say that I didn't see this coming.
Assuming a jury finds Libby guilty (which is likely), let's examine this from another angle: what motivation did one of the most powerful people in the nation have to lie to a grand jury Surely, a man that smart knows the meaning of perjury and obstruction of justice, so he was clearly afraid of something far worse than these charges.
Now, I am speculating, but since he perjured himself in relation to a national security breach, this could be either fear of the utter destruction of the Bush presidency, or of revealing something worse than perjury, say treason. Either way, the truths that his lies are covering pose an even more unsettling question:
Why does 50% of the country think Bush is an honest man and his administration will do good for the world
The people I know who have voted for Bush generally voted against his opponent for various reasons (abortion rights, fiscally conservative). However, it still confounds me to this day that the man was elected.
- I predicted on the eve of his election that we would be at war unnecessarily within 4 years. My guess was China because of trade difficulties back in 2000. I was wrong, and should have seen it coming - of course he would set his sights on Iraq. He surrounded himself with his Dad's and Reagan's chief advisors.
- He has been lying from the beginning, and I mean back when he was running for governor of Texas. Back then, he was claiming to be environmentally sound, when his record showed otherwise. During his tenure as governor, Houston went from a relatively clean city to being more polluted than Los Angeles. As a student at Rice University, I could physically perceive the difference when jogging. Compassionate conservative Why is his chief advisor (Karl Rove) the man his father hired because of a newspaper article describing the dirty tricks Rove performed for Nixon while still in college What was the deal with those phone calls sullying John McCain's name in the 2000 North Carolina primary
- He has never demonstrated the key qualities of a Christian that he exploited to get elected - I am speaking of forgiveness, compassion for the poor, and humility. Instead, the primary values he has displayed in his actions have been vengeance ("wanted, dead or alive"), exploitation or plain ignorance of the poor (special contracts to Halliburton during 2003, cutting taxes for the rich and proposing cutting back Social Security, tax breaks for oil companies after Katrina), and extreme hubris (refusing to release documents on John Roberts or Harriet Miers).
Even my grandmother, who has voted Republican since Eisenhower, voted against the man in the last election.
What is wrong with this country Is it going to take an impeachable offense for people to wake up and recognize that the Republican party simply doesn't represent the interests of the majority of their voting base
Actually, I know the answer to this. It will take the re-organization of the biased media outlets like Fox News and others who confuse editorial with fact. Until people start receiving the actual news, there is no hope whatsoever.
