Abu Gonzalez resigns and Bush is Queeg

I am taken aback that Abu Gonzalez resigns as AG. Josh Marshall and others have pointed out that Gonzalez is the keystone that was preventing Congressional investigations from proceeding into numerous criminal actions the executive branch has committed.

This jumping from the sinking Bush administration by high administration officials however does not mean that those officials will escape from their criminal actions or intentions.

I believe and will advocate to my Congressional representatives that acts by those officials should be investigated by, at a minimum, a special prosecutor and grand jury. People like Abu Gonzalez and Karl Rove are responsible for their actions and those actions by their subordinates. Crimes committed cannot be crimes ignored.

Now, Mr. Bush is akin to Captain Queeg. A man who is rapidly losing his grasp on reality and sanity. The bunker mentality that pervades the White House staff is evident when their dialogue includes such kindergarten terms as "defeatocrats".

A recent book "Bush on the Couch" by Dr. Justin Frank utilizes applied psychoanalysis to understand the underlying psychological forces that makeup George W. Bush. What I find interesting is that such an approach was used by the O.S.S. during World War Two on Adolf Hitler by Walter Langer.

As the pressure builds on Mr. Bush there is the final question: Will Mr. Bush attack Iran as a way to salvage his presidency? This is like Adolf Hitler's gamble on Unternehmen: Wacht am Rhein. "Hitler believed that he could split the Allies and make the Americans and British sue for a separate peace, independent of the Soviet Union." Can an attack on Iran solve Mr. Bush's political dilemina?

One clue that it would not be so was uttered by former U.S. Secretary of State (under President Bush Sr., no less!) Lawrence Engleburger told the BBC:

"If George Bush [Jnr] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy."

Give no money to John or Ken Salazar

Why do these two men, who are elected representatives of the people, vote for a man has delusions of being an elected King?

Mr. Bush and his minions advocate and implement policies that are clearly against the Constitution and Bill of Rights of this nation.

Both Salazars have voted to give a free hand to Mr. Bush's illegal surveillance program of Americans. This bill that was passed gives Mr. Bush a free "Get Out of Jail" card for his program to spy on Americans for political purposes.

The evidence that, for example, the color coded terror alert system was used for partisan political gain is vouched for by Tom Ridge. The use of Homeland Security for partisan political gain was never made more clear than by former Speaker of the House Tom DeLay in his fight to redistrict Texas Congressional Districts that was clearly against the Constitution.

This is why the currently passed bill by both the House and Senate should be killed in House and Senate conference.

The Salazar brothers do not understand the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

It is time for Democratic Party members to no longer give to money to John or Ken Salazar until they understand, through legislative action of repealing this bill, that the Constitution is not "just a goddamn piece of paper" as the thug against the Constitution so aptly puts it.