Super Privilege
I honestly don’t know what to say about this. The same people who like to say that if you’ve done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide, have basically stated their will to do everything in their power, and as much beyond that power that they can get away with, to hide everything about themselves that they can.
The arrogance and contempt for accountability has managed to short-circuit my outrage meter for the time-being. Fortunately, there all a whole host of other folks who have found the words. Some good examples can be found here, here, and here. From the last:
As long ago as 1215, the notion that there ought to be and were limits, that others could over-rule the King, was established. No wonder Dick Cheney seems so cranky all the time; it must be hard to feel personally responsible to correct a mistake made eight centuries ago.
For myself, all I can do for the moment is watch and see if the recent signs of vertebrate behaviour in the Democratic leadership will continue and if they’ll use the powers they have in Congress to bring this issue to a head. If they don’t, then the Bushies will have succeeded in pushing the Presidency outside the bounds of accountability, and the US slips that much closer to the kind of authoritarian government that they revolted against and fought to oppose elsewhere.
