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Category: Political Commentary - Liberal

Posted Mon May 30,2005 7:51 PM Last Edited:

http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=372

 

Sometime in early July, I expect Chief Justice William Rehnquist to

resign from the Supreme Court because of his failing health. President

Bush will then have the opportunity to select a new Chief Justice and a

new Associate Justice. Other Justices will likely leave before he

finishes his second term.

 

This news is not welcome. Bush has already shown a tendency to choose

extremist judges for federal court. In fact, one of his appointees,

Janice Rogers Brown, once said that the New Deal was " the triumph of

our socialist revolution " (Source:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/61/61_cover_rogers.html ). But what is

worse is that the Republicans have persuaded Democrats to agree not to

filibuster court appointees unless there are " extreme circumstances. "

The Republicans still reserve the right to end the filibuster if they

think the Democrats have abused the agreement.

 

We can't trust President Bush to choose competent justices and judges.

That is because he has abused power several times to get into office

and in holding it.

 

Bush cheated to win the 2000 presidential election over Al Gore. He

conspired with his brother, Jeb, the governor of Florida and Katherine

Harris, the Secretary of State, to remove the names of thousands of

likely Democratic voters from the voting rolls (

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=30 & row=2 ). These voters

were turned away at the polls, making the difference in the election

results.

 

The mid-term election of 2002 also arouses suspicion. Polls showed a

close race for control of the United States Senate. Shortly before the

election, Bush demanded a vote on the authorization to use force in

Iraq. He got that vote to go to war, which he called a " vote for

peace. " Many Senators were afraid to vote against the President before

Election Day.

 

Nonetheless, polls showed Democrats leading in enough Senate races to

retain their lead in the Senate. Mysteriously, on Election Day, several

Republicans who were expected to lose pulled off victories (

www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/000869.php ). Miraculously, the GOP

got back control of the Senate and retained control in the House of

Representatives.

 

Between the 2002 and 2004 elections, Bush continued to abuse power. He

started a war against Iraq on false pretenses, telling the public (and

the world) that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and thus

presented an imminent threat to the United States. A recent memo

revealed that Bush fit the facts to support his conclusion that war was

necessary, a crime ( www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=3712 ).

Having set the " bait, " Bush proceeded to change his mind several times

about why he used force against Iraq.

 

With hundreds of U.S. and thousands of Iraqi lives now gone, Bush still

will not admit he was mistaken. He calls himself a " wartime president "

with two wars to his credit.

 

Also, Bush shifted money allocated by Congress for the war in

Afghanistan to the war in Iraq (Source: Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward,

Simon and Schuster, 137). This action violates the Constitutional

provision that the president execute the laws passed by Congress and

may well have been an impeachable offense.

 

In late 2003, Bush pushed a Medicare drug benefit bill through

Congress. When the House vote looked to go against him, Republicans

extended the time period by which members could vote. This unethical

tactic assisted in the bill's passage.

 

The election of 2004 brought new allegations of Bush misconduct.

Similar to 2002, exit polls showed Bush's opponent, Senator John Kerry

leading in several key states on Election Night (Source:

http://baltimorechronicle.com/112204MargieBurns.shtml ). Yet

mysteriously, buoyed perhaps by electronic voting machines with no

paper trail and friends like Kenneth Blackwell as Secretary of State of

swing-state Ohio, Bush was declared the winner of just enough states to

win the Electoral College.

 

So we have a president who rigs elections and breaks laws to get what

he wants. If that isn't enough, he is going to make his own imprint on

the Supreme Court with extremists who will back up his policies, like

the Patriot Act, which intrudes upon our civil liberties.

 

I would suggest impeachment but the Republicans control the House and

the charges would never get out of the Judiciary Committee. I would

also suggest we plan to vote the Democrats back into control of the

House and the Senate in 2006. But that assumes the vote won't be

rigged.

 

We are the victims of a conspiracy brought about by our government. If

this were happening in any other nation, we would call it a

dictatorship or a " banana republic. " The least we can do is to tell

ourselves the truth. Only then can we seek the freedom we deserve.

 

 

Dean Hartwell is a political scientist and the author of Truth Matters:

How the Voters Can Take Back Their Nation. He also founded the website,

Hartwell Perspective: Truth Matters in Politics. See his website at

http://www.deanhartwell.com.