Monday, August 27, 2007

(10:59 AM) | Adam Kotsko:

The Gonzalez Resignation

Gonzalez's resignation will, in all likelihood, do the following:
  1. Cut off any further investigation into the US attorney scandal and any further wrongdoing such investigation might uncover.
  2. Provide the White House with the opportunity to bully Congress into confirming his replacement quickly, which they can present as a pressing necessity -- allowing the Justice Department to get back to simply "doing its job" now that the Democrats' needless investigations have driven out a dedicated public servant. Perhaps now the Democrats' partisan bloodlust is satisfied and we can get back to the business of fighting our common enemy!
There are always going to be Democrats who fall for that kind of thing, just like the idiots who were outraged by the "bullying" of Alito -- you know, the crypto-fascist who was, in a triumph of bipartisanship, given a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. "The Democrats" as a group will be blamed for the capitulation of this relatively small minority; "the Democrats" as a group will also be blamed for being so divisive and partisan. Even though public opinion will generally see through this, it won't matter, because the media is made up of a bunch of fucking idiots whose narrative is always implicitly pro-Republican, so straightforwardly "liberal" or "progressive" accounts of events will never get a hearing.

But since no one watches the news or reads the paper anymore, the coming election will ultimately be decided by who looks most natural eating a chili dog -- which is part of the reason that I think John Edwards should be the Democratic nominee.

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(Adam Kotsko has asserted the moral right to be identified as the author of this post.)