Though they’re reluctant to admit it, Obama and the Democrats want Bush in jail for war crimes. They would see this as a victory. I can’t help but be reminded how how the Soviet Union used to jail politicians who fell out of favor and airbrush them out of photographs.
Obama needs to think about this carefully. His economic policies are doomed to fail because they have never worked anywhere, anytime. Does he really want his Republican successor to prosecute him in 2014 for economic crimes against the country?
Obama is a Stalinist. That’s not an insult. It’s a statement of fact.
From Wesley Pruden at the Washington Times:
Opening a can of worms always tempts a mischief-maker, but it’s risky business. That can of worms might turn out to be a can of snakes, like Barack Obama’s latest gift to the nation.
The president’s on-again, off-again, maybe-he-will and maybe-he-won’t decision to punish someone who loosened tongues of Islamist terrorists at Guantanamo suddenly threatens not only the CIA interrogators and Justice Department lawyers, but even members of Congress. Maybe it won’t stop there: if the lawyers who offered legal opinions are at risk of punishment for their legal advice, why not the members of Congress who knew what was going on? Why not the secretaries who typed up the transcripts? Why not the interns who fetched the coffee? All were accessories either before or after the fact.
We’re on unfamiliar ground now. No president before has sought to punish his predecessor for policy decisions, no matter how wrong or wrong-headed.
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