I do not breathe your politics
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Friday, May 12, 2006
Developments (of the non-photographic kind)
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So, back to politics, for a few little thoughts.
First, the mendacious and alarming Dr John Reid is in the place his jackboots fit best - the Home Office. Now we can put a face to the owner of the endlessly stamping Orwellian boot.
Second, Jack Straw (who I am now convinced was a dove over Iraq, but who accepted cabinet collective responsibility) seems to have been ousted from a job that he wasn't actually that bad at. If Margaret Beckett does not find a way to step back from Straw's comments about invasion and the nuclear option w.r.t. Iran, I will be most surprised. We're going to war with Iran, folks.
Third, the Plamegate grand jury is apparently meeting tomorrow. (OK, today by the time you read this). Could it finally be Karl's turn? It seems to me that if Rove is indicted, Bush is faced with a problem that will definitely come back to him after the midterms. If the democrats win one house, there will be committee proceedings leading to impeachment. If the republicans narrowly hold onto both houses, expect them to get rid of him themselves.
People forget that Libby was also assistant to the president. Rove (who has been somewhat demoted recently) is more directly the president's man, and if he is indicted, the cries of "what did the president know and when did he know it?" are going to get pretty noisy for Mr 29%. One way or another, the midterms are going to be a political bloodbath, and I now really feel that there are no positive outcomes for the united states. 29% of the electorate are still completely unconvinced of this man's incompetence and corruption. Why should we expect them to deal rationally with the pendulum swinging back to the democrats?
Fourth, and to me no less significant in terms of moral victories, the High Court has done a great deed in slapping down the government's use of orders in council against the Chagos islanders' right to return to Diego Garcia. This is not a good week for High Court popularity in Downing Street. You know, curse their insistence on applying the law. It's so inconvenient.
posted by Michael at 5/12/2006 04:27:00 AM |