Scandalous!

There could be major trouble brewing in D.C. for the Bush Administration. I mean, it's sort of amazing that there hasn't been more trouble before, but Democratic leaders while occasionally spineless were eminently sensible in taking impeachment off the table. The last impeachment ran off the tracks on about day 2 into a circus of politics instead of facts and deliberation- in today's partisan climate, another attempt would probably be headed down the same road. That and the nightmarish words: "President Cheney" probably kept the Democratic Congressional Leadership from doing something rash for too long.

That may no longer be an option. With the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last year at the behest of nearly everyone in Washington D.C., the Democrats on judiciary started poking around hiring practices- and they dug up a doozy: the OPR and the Department of Justice's Inspector General have concluded that Republican politics were used in hiring practices- people with Democratic ties and 'liberal' leanings were passed over, while loyal Republicans were hired.

This is bad, bad news for the Bushies and puts the Democrats in a bind. We cannot all ow for the politicization of the Department of Justice. We need lawyers who can do their job based on the law and not be encumbered by loyalties to the administration. W e need a DOJ that can take on the White House and anything else if they feel the law is being violated and the President didn't provide us with that.

Calls for something- a 'Grand Inquest' are already growing and certainly, I think censure should be considered. I'm not sure anything illegal happened but certainly something massive shady that has all kinds of implications for the Constitutional Balance of powers- but there could be pitfalls ahead and it's the kind of thing that, in an election year, could explode in the faces of the Democrats on the verge of what would appear to be a very good year.