Enough?

Even in the cursory foot-dragging "we don't really wanna" Senate investigation of the administration's pre-war intelligence, it's become crystal clear that the White House had truckloads more information than they shared with Congress. How much more do they need?

A report out today confirm that, without saying what that itel is. Doesn't that scream for a full round of subpoenas? Shouldn't Americans of any party want to get to the bottom of it? And if they're not dirty (as if), shouldn't the administration want to be exonerated of the charge that they call "irresponsible" (among other things)?

Surely, that's what an American president would do: open the books. But we haven't had an American serving in the White House since Bubba was playing 'hide the cigar" in the cloakroom.

And we've had damn few in Congress - none in the ruling party.

Georgie's top excuse for Iraq has been that the congress saw the same intel he did, and they still voted for the war (actually they voted to authorize him to threaten war, which to him was the same thing). He pretty well throttled Kerry with the notion (interrupting Kerry's efforts to throttle himself).

But it was never true, and even a guy who usually doesn't get jokes and laughs when he sees other people laugh - Georgie - knew he was telling a whopper. Is that lie, in and of itself enough to impeach him? Why not?

They got Capone on tax evasion. And Georgie's evasions have been far more profound.

Speaking of throttling Kerry, what happened to Georgie's pledge against flip-flopping? Not that it was ever true - Georgie changed course at the crisp bark of a Rove order over some big stuff like Homeland Security.

But now he's got McCain sitting in the Oval Office pretending that they're reached a "compromise" over the torture amendment. This compromise consists of McCain getting exactly what he wants in the defense bill (a ban on torture) and Georgie pushing not one but two plans to circumvent it.

Plan A is the Lindsay Graham bill that will allow prosecutions based on evidence gathered through torture. Get out the thumbscrews, guys! It's anchors away at Gitmo when this thing passes - it also blocks the victims (I mean the accused terrorists) access to US courts. So whatever is done will never be seen or heard on the inside of a court of law.

Isn't law what this is all about in the end? We have a Junta of Republican fixers in power who believe that the law does not apply to them. And as long as they can keep a death grip on the congress and the courts, they can get away with their savage crimes.

Another report out today shows that Georgie signed the order to allow the NSA to spy on Americans in America - without first getting a court order. That's illegal. Can a president sign an order to 'allow' an illegal act? Sure, he can grant pardons in criminal cases, but only after a finding of guilt. Just like the Pope can no longer grant 'indulgences' prior to bad acts, the president can't pre-authorize crime.

But as long as the congress is run by bloodless co-conspirators, we're stuck. If by some miracle we can overcome the rigged elections that the Junta runs and get back the Congress, the investigations will make Watergate look like a snipe hunt.