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July 17, 2008

This One’s for Yoo

by AltHippo @ 11:06 am. Filed under Bush, cheney

This WaPo vignette is one of the clearest illustrations of how a small group of individuals can game a system and destroy what was up to that point a charmingly quirky democratic republic. I like this quote for starters:

But two sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that Card called to reject the names shortly after the list arrived at the White House.

“The message was that there was only one candidate they wanted, and that was John Yoo,” one source said.

Yes, of course he was.

Yoo did not emerge from the head of Beelzebub post 9.11 of course. He was one of the gangsters in the Reagan justice department who came up with a series of remedies for Watergate. That is, how to prevent a future Republican presidential lawbreaker from being held accountable for a future Watergate.

Now, I know that RiverMalkin and the Meowists are satisfied that we’ll be just fine with divided government in the form of McCain and a Democratic Congress, no matter how light the Democratic seasoning of that Congress is. Having seen how Oz functions, I have little doubt that McCain will continue in the same vein. The Executive has been gamed, and it will take a generation of dedicated reformers to heal it. McCain is not that reformer. I dearly hope Obama is.

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