To the Ends of the Earth, with Dogs

Once again, I will begin a post with a comment I left on another site, in this case Firedoglake:

We do not forgive. We do not forget. We do not let bygones be bygones, and we sure as hell do not “get over it”. We do not “stop living in the past”, and we damn sure keep crying over spilt milk. To err is human; to forgive is divine; but to impeach, try, and imprison the whole lot of them is transcendental.We run them down, to the ends of the Earth, with dogs if necessary, for however long it takes to repudiate what these people have done to our country.

The subject in question was whether or not a Democratic administration, in the interests of healing the nation from the partisan warfare that has so damaged our once-vaunted ability to govern ourselves, should suspend or curtail the various and sundry investigations into cases of suspected or demonstrated Republican criminals in the current Administration. The argument seems to be that somehow the country will heal more quickly if the sins of the past are quietly ignored, in the spirit of "bipartisanship".

Screw bipartisanship. Clinton tried it by letting the whole Iran-Contra hangover from Reagan/Bush drop, and was repaid for it with the most vitriolic campaign of personal destruction to be endured by an American President in recent history. The Democrats in Congress, both houses, tried it by giving Bush everything he wanted after 9/11, and were repaid for it with a malignant campaign of character assassination and charges of "soft on terrorism". "Run on the war", Rove said, and they did. In campaign after campaign, Democrats, even decorated and disabled veterans, were portrayed as indifferent to, or even sympathetic, with terrorists in general, and Osama bin Laden in particular.
Bipartisanship, in this case, is for suckers. Bipartisanship simply endows Republicans with an assumption of invulnerability, as seen in the fact that the President claims the rights of warrantless surveillance, secret arrest, indefinite detention, and torture, even while denying their existence. The VP claims he is not part of the Executive branch and is thus above Congressional oversight-and the law. The President commutes the sentence of a convicted felon and former aide who hasn't spent a day in jail, after that same aide prejures himself and obstructs an investigation that implicates the President and VP in a criminal conspiracy to commit treason betray the identity of an undercover CIA asset in wartime. Got that? The President has obstructed justice by his inappropriate use of Executive clemency powers to shield his supporters and aides who are convicted of crimes from the consequences of their actions, with Alberto Gonzalez standing at the bridge to the Justice Department, ready, willing, and able to block any further investigation into these crimes, or others.

Let's call it what it is! Betraying the identities of undercover agents in wartime is treason, plain and simple. Shielding from jail those whom obstructed justice to protect you is obstruction of justice. But to them it was all justified, all in the name of partisanship.

This is beyond partisanship-this is now a question of statesmanship. Repudiating the Bush Doctrine should now be the patriotic duty of every public official who meant it when they said "support and defend the Constitution...", and the best way to do so is dogged determination: Investigate. Investigate. Impeach, or Indict. Trials. Sentences. Consequences for these who've governed our nation like drunken teenagers behind the wheel of a stolen car.
Just to say it again: We run them down, to the ends of the Earth, with dogs if necessary, for however long it takes to repudiate what these people have done to our country.