Saturday Night Massacre: The Sequel - Democratic Underground

quaoar

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Fri Jul-08-05 12:20 AM
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Saturday Night Massacre: The Sequel

Perhaps you are old enough to remember Archibald Cox.

Cox was the first special prosecutor assigned to the Watergate scandal. His claim to fame is that he was fired by Richard Nixon during the infamous Saturday Night Massacre.

It seems to me that Bush is desperate to make sure that his mentor -- the man who got him elected -- is not sent to prison. But what is he going to do to prevent that?

Attack the special prosecutor, of course.

Other options don't readily apear on the horizon.

So what else can Bush do except claim that Fitzgerald is a deranged partisan out to get Rove and that the cause of justice requires that he be dismissed?

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TwentyFive

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Fri Jul-08-05 12:31 AM
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1. I think this Rove thing is a set up. There will be no scandal.

Rove is too smart to do his own dirty work. Rove is like JR Ewing - sets up people for destruction.

Rove is setting us up to support jailing of a journalist until she names her source. The source will be some underling that Rove wanted to get anyway. Rove is doing this to innoculate the WH against any deepthroats. If people are intimidated into believing they will be outed...they will stay quiet about the BushCo crimes.

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quaoar

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Fri Jul-08-05 12:50 AM
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2. Nah

Even evil geniuses like Rove fuck up occasionally. And Rove is in a serious FUBAR position right now. But he'll have to be dragged from the White House kicking and screaming.

So he needs a plan to make the indictment look like a partisan attack. Once the indictment comes down expect a vicious and coordinated attack on Fitzgerald.

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shraby

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Fri Jul-08-05 01:29 AM
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3. Fitzgerald is a Republican. Rove might

find it difficult to scream "partisan".

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Jeff In Milwaukee

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Fri Jul-08-05 08:30 AM
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7. Nah, Part II

Karl Rove has been able to accomplish what he has accomplished because of a compliant press corps. The jailing of Judith Miller and the general public's "Who the Hell Cares?" attitude is shocking them out of their complacency. They know that if they had been doing their job all along, this would not have happened.

Now that there is (Karl's) blood in the water, I expect the mainstream media will grow a spine and not take Rove's bait quite so quickly.

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Bluesplayer

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Fri Jul-08-05 01:31 AM
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4. is Bush

somehow forcing these SCOTUS resignations in order to stack the court with his nominees in anticipation of his own legal problems?

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bobbieinok

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Fri Jul-08-05 01:37 AM
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5. Nixon wanted Cox fired...2 quit rather than do this; BORK did it

he's the one RW always bring up about how nasty dems are in attacking SCOTUS appointees.......the killer for Bork wasn't abortion or civil rights, altho he was attacked for his views.......

the thing that scared everyone then, even republicans, was that he bluntly stated that constitution DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

today, I think many would agree with him

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Felix Mala

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Fri Jul-08-05 08:43 AM
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9. Nixon went down the chain of command until he found someone

willing to break the law. That's right: Robert Bork.

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Independent_Liberal

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Fri Jul-08-05 08:22 AM
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6. Ooooooooo!!!!!!

I have a feeling this is going to get interesting very fast!

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theboss

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Fri Jul-08-05 08:39 AM
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8. Fitzgerald is playing this very close to the vest

I don't know what he can be attacked on at this point.

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