Valentine's Message to Bush from the NY Times

Looks like the New York Times isn't happy with the way things are going in Washington and are saying so on today's editorial page. From the article (http://www.nytimes.com/…4thu1.html ) the screencap above comes from:



"Alberto Gonzales may be out, but the country is still waiting for a full accounting of how he and his White House patrons cynically politicized the Justice Department."



Yes, because this is clearly the biggest problem facing America today--not the economy, not Iraq or the fact that Bush essentially lied or was completely incompetent (both impeachable offenses in my mind), yes, we must find out why the DoJ was "cynically politicized". As if.



How about tackling the issue in the headline for this opinion piece?



More:



"Congress is rightly asking questions about the actions of yet another United States attorney: New Jersey�s Christopher J. Christie."



WHO?



"The House also needs to stop procrastinating and vote to hold witnesses in contempt for refusing to testify in the wider scandal."



Finally, the first paragraph gets to the point mentioned in the headline. The next three paragraphs are about this Christie guy who played partisan politics to help a Republican's run for some office or another.



Again, thank you NYT for "speaking out" on this "important" issue.



After that, however, it is all about the fact that Congress is allowing some people exist above the law, finally getting to this by the end of the article:



"The stakes are high. There are people in jail today, including a former governor of Alabama, who have raised credible charges that they were put there for political reasons. Congress�s constitutionally guaranteed powers are also at risk. If Congress fails to enforce its own subpoenas, it would effectively be ceding its subpoena power. It would also be giving its tacit consent to the dangerous idea of an imperial president � above the law and beyond the reach of checks and balances.



The founders did not want that when they wrote the Constitution, and the voters who elected this Congress do not want it today."



Awww, it's like they're sending one of those little candy hearts to the White House!



And it's just about as tasty!
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