Libby: The Fall Guy for Cheney

As many of you already know, "Scooter" Libby was found guilty yesterday on four of the five charges against him including perjury and obstruction of justice in connecting with the Valerie Plame CIA leak. The case itself is obvious scandal for the administration in which connection to the case leads certainly to Cheney and speculated high enough to Bush. The case is an important indicator of the way the Republican business is run: Power at all costs. Not only is this idea wholeheartedly UnAmerican, where checks and balances help allow separation of power, but an indicator of priorities. The Bush administration made the war in Iraq such a priority to the success of the administration that they would go so far as out-ing a CIA agent to keep people in the dark on the Iraq war. The Bush administration's priority is power in the place of governance and has developed into a monarchical bureaucracy, more than our country has ever seen. This case has become all to clear in the past months that Libby, Cheney's former Chief of Staff, is taking the fall for his former boss, who had a strong hand in orchestrating this "leak". Cheney is one of the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, another Bush administration trend. Cheney was able to orchestrate the war and protecting it in the press quietly from the VP seat, while Bush stayed an innocent figure-head. The same can be said in the House of Reps. Dennis Hastert was a quiet congressman with a clear record, who could be in the spotlight as Speaker, while Tom Delay orchestrated Republican power grabs in redistricting, rules, etc, from the guise of the largely overlooked majority leader position. Our country needs to return to its principles of governance over power, and a new party must enter the executive branch to clean up the influenza of back door negotiation and willingness to go through all odds to never admit a mistake and secure a stranglehold on power.

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