A Creation in His Own Image: Ths U.S. Justice Department

President Bush is unfortunately a transformative figure, in the worst corrupt and villianous way. From Supreme Court to foreign policy to democracy to justice. The latest breaking news is that the White House IS deeply involved with the firing of 8 federal prosecutors, released because of "performance issues". Though Dems are fuckin' up when it comes to stopping our bloody world messes, they at least know a good Washington scandal when they smell one.

This has all the makings of classic corruption. Releasing prosecutors who serve at the pleasure of the president, moves to replace them with cronies who will do White House bidding to attack opposition party across the country, it has it all. One can only imagine that in the 5 years previous to this, that we would never get a full public airing of the issues around this case.

The Administration acts like this is business as usual for presidential politics. Sure it is, when you're a corrupt and dictatorial leader whose version of justice is whatever consolidates your ever-growing power. Here's the truly disturbing item that is included in today's NYT:

In early 2005, Harriet E. Miers, then the White House legal counsel, asked a Justice Department official whether it would be feasible to replace all United States attorneys when their four-year terms expired, according to the Justice Department. The proposal came as the administration was considering which political appointees to replace in the second term, Ms. Perino said.

Ms. Miers sent her query to D. Kyle Sampson, a top aide to Mr. Gonzales, the Justice officials said. Mr. Sampson, who resigned Monday, replied that filling so many jobs at once would overtax the department. He suggested replacing a smaller group, according to e-mail messages and other memorandums compiled by the Justice Department.

Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, also had rejected the idea of replacing all the prosecutors, Ms. Perino said. But as Ms. Miers worked with Mr. Sampson on devising a list of attorneys to oust, Mr. Rove relayed to her complaints he had received that the Justice Department was not moving aggressively on voter fraud cases.

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They wanted to replace every federal prosecutor with a subservient sycophant hack who will protect the president and do his bidding. This amounts to political thuggery, putting your people in every corridor of justice and corrput it with its vile stench.

Friends and reasoned opponents, we face the most legitimate threat to our country's unity and the sovereignty of its citizens than since the days when brothers took up arms against one another.

Is it enough to simply understand the facts? We must take the action we must to give our cowardly members of Congress some ounce of courage. Something they will not lack when they understand that they stand not alone. And they will find it deep within themselves to speak to this vicious power lest they be implicit in this corruption.