The irony of the constitutional crisis - it was planned this way

everything i'm reading - and i consider that to be a good thing - says we are at the moment of constitutional crisis, a moment i have been awaiting for almost six years... there have been many, many times when i believed we should have taken a stronger stand against the bush administration's efforts to create a totalitarian state, and i sincerely believe that many of those efforts could have succeeded with the proper leadership, leadership willing to step out and describe the ugly reality... now, here we are...

It’s bitterly ironic that, now that we have arrived at the eve of a constitutional showdown, the unwillingness of congressional Democrats in 2006 to filibuster Bush’s insane nomination of Samuel Alito in the name of "keeping our powder dry" might force them to face the consequences of that extremely short-sighted and unprincipled decision, in the event the White House, a la the Nixon administration 33 years ago, decides to challenge any Congressional subpoenas.

But there is no more falling back. Retreat is not an option anymore. There’s nothing behind us except despotism – and not despotism wearing the thin veneer of "democratic" trappings that we’ve become accustomed to over the past six years, but unalloyed, coarse, amoral, callous despotism that doesn’t even pretend to give a crap about the welfare of anyone other than those in power.

i am in total agreement with kagro x at kos who says this...

Realize that the resolution of this stand-off will determine the extent to which the Congress is able to investigate everything that's still on their plate. If they lose this showdown, they lose their leverage in investigating NSA spying, the DeLay/Abramoff-financed Texas redistricting, Cheney's Energy Task Force, the political manipulation of science, the Plame outing... everything.

and we must not forget the fact that the bush administration laid out its plan BEFORE the november elections...

In fact, when it comes to deploying its Executive power, which is dear to Bush's understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as "a cataclysmic fight to the death" over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is "going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation."

as i posted last night, the game's afoot...

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