"Former VP Al Gore Has Turned Himself Into a 1-Man Grand Jury (Broder)

[kpete]

Gore's Challenge

By David S. Broder

Thursday, January 19, 2006; Page A19

Former vice president Al Gore has turned himself into a one-man grand jury, ready to indict the Bush administration for any number of crimes against the Constitution. Whether you agree with Gore's conclusions or not, the speech that the 2000 Democratic nominee for president gave this week in Washington was as comprehensive a rundown of George W. Bush's ventures to the limits of executive authority as anyone could hope to find.

Gore is hardly an objective observer. Having outpolled Bush in the popular vote only to see his apparent victory taken from him by a divided Supreme Court, Gore cannot be expected to be dispassionate about the way Bush is operating as president. His speech is just an indictment. The proof of the charges can come only in congressional hearings and, ultimately, in the courts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801874.html

[hang a left]

1. Whatever, Broder....

bite me

[madaboutharry]

3. Broder was agreeing with Gore.

Read through the article and it seems to me that Broder was seeing things pretty much the same way as Gore.

[hang a left]

7. Guess I should have done that.

I prejudged and only read what was posted. Thanks you for smacking me around. ;)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. read the article. It is quite good. Convincing, accurate supportive

especially what Gore said about congress' duty.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Proof? what about a confession?

Bush admitted he broke the law, but said he was "protecting" us so everything was ok. To me, that's like a mugger saying he assaulted a woman to "protect" her from her heavy purse.

[KoKo]

4. Here's a little more from the article. Aside from the sneering he support

some of what Gore is calling for. It's a weak defense of Gore and a cop out on Bush's lying us into war...but the rest he feels deserves more scrutiny:


SNIP:

But even after discounting for political motivations, it seems to me that Gore has done a service by laying out the case as clearly and copiously as he has done. His overall charge is that Bush has systematically broken the laws and bent the Constitution by his actions in the areas of national security and domestic anti-terrorism. He is not the first to make that complaint. My e-mail has included many messages from people who have leaped far ahead of the evidence and concluded that Bush should be impeached and removed from office for actions they deem illegal.

[Benhurst]

6. Not bad for an article by David Broder. Germany , France and

Russia were not convinced Iraq had WMD,however, and it is now pretty clear now neither did the professionals in the British government.

It's about time Cheney's unprecedented meddling into the operations of the CIA be given a full airing.

Still, it's good to see a little truth dribbling from David Broder's pen.

[TomClash]

8. Has David Broder heard of the DSM? nt

[Nordmadr]

9. Considering that it is from the Washington Post, not bad. N/T

[SaveElmer]

10. As usual Broder is mealy mouthed, and won't just take a side...

But on the whole he was agreeing Gore's comments were useful...

Broder really needs to be put out to pasture!

[kentuck]

11. More like a one-man truth squad....

Because sorry pieces of shit in the media won't do their job. When the President of the United States comes out and admits that he broke the law, what more do you frigging need?!

[insane_cratic_gal]

12. 1 man jury but he has an army behind him!

I think they forget how low the polls are of Bush.. and how high his Impeachment polls are.