Forget Iraq, What We Need Is a Panel on Bush: Margaret Carlson

[maddezmom]

Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Waiting for Baker became the Washington game everyone wanted to play.

It allowed both parties to hit the pause button as they anticipated a report from the Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Representative Lee Hamilton. The report would give them all cover -- Republicans reluctant to jolt their president into action and Democrats afraid to risk any proposal that would leave an opening for Karl Rove to accuse them of cutting and running.

President George W. Bush didn't like playing the game, which only added to the sense that the panel could be important. Bush had nervously referred to the former secretary as ``Jimmy'' when he didn't forget him altogether and, before the report, labeled it as just one of many he would look at. Bush fought back as parts of the report leaked. He stepped up his insistence that there would be no early exit from Iraq, whether gradual or graceful, until the ``mission is complete.''

Bush could have saved his breath. The report actually extends the waiting game in his favor since there's no timetable for its recommendations, unlike commissions that propose legislation to Congress. There's a reason Bush was able to say upon receiving the report on Wednesday, ``We will take every proposal seriously.'' He can just continue on as if nothing had happened.

Familiar Ring

Bush isn't going to have to ignore the report. He can just agree with much of it. The panel leaves to the military commanders the decisions on how far and how fast to shift troops from fighting to training. Ever hear Bush say he leaves troop levels and deployments to ``generals on the ground''?

more:http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aCf3fg9Sc0pA

[whistle]

1. Exactly, Shrub * the Commander in Chief passing the buck

...get a panel on impeachment going asap of bothe Bush and Cheney

[Demeter]

2. Has Bush Got Enough Rope YET?

Inquiring minds want to know...

[pat_k]

3. Draft articles and make the case for impeachment

Instead of a "commission on Bush," how about Members of Congress fulfill their oath to defend the Constitution by introducing articles of impeachment and convening Impeachment hearings to make the case that removal from office is the ONLY way to reassert our collective sovereignty?

As long as the massive power of the American presidency is in the hands of war criminals it will be impossible for the United States to serve as a positive force on anything.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3004846&mesg_id=3005369

[Uncle Joe]

4. Well thank you Margaret Carlson for giving us the corrupt incompetent in the first place.

You can wash your hands all you like and the blood will not come off.:puke: