With a new disclosure from an ex-White House press secretary little Scotty McClellan, the evidence builds that George W. Bush participated in a criminal cover-up of the White House role in leaking Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA identity. Now, what can the Democrats do?

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A few minutes before I headed over to Red Mountain Monday afternoon to talk about the Siegelman, Scrushy case on the radio with Frank Mathews, I put up the headline on the news page telling the story of how President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, allowing him to escape a 2 1/2-year prison term for obstruction of justice - just hours after a federal appeals court panel had ruled Libby could not delay his prison term in the CIA leak case.

This is odd timing, coming on the heels of the “excessive” sentence handed down in Montgomery by a Republican judge and the fast-track jailing of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy.

What conclusion can be drawn from this? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And for those who have all the money and power, there is also arrogance of the highest order.

Somebody in the press and the Senate better bring this Bush monarchy down before it destroys democracy once and for all.

Where are the people? Where are the protests? Where are the marches?

On the eve of the Fourth of July 2007, perhaps we should cancel the fireworks shows and all go to Washington instead. The White House needs to feel some heat, people. As long as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney feel like they can get away with stomping on the Constitution - what Bush calls “just a piece of paper” - they will continue to trample it into the ground.

As I have said before and I will repeat again, apparently King George Bush II has a corporate mandate as president. What is it? To prove “big government” doesn’t work and hope the people will go along with privatizing the running of the country by the board of directors at Exxon-Mobile, State Farm and Wal-mart.

Remember what ole Fob James said about Alabama government? The government should work like the Waffle House.

Personally, I would rather avoid the greasy, grimy eggs and bacon - and the putrid smell of rotten government.

Give me a locally grown tomato sandwich on homemade bread any day - and a government that works for the people as well as the corporate bastards.

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The four-count conviction of White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice has left many Americans, including the jury, wondering why Libby’s bosses weren’t in the dock with him.

The evidence, viewed chronologically, leaves little doubt that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and other senior officials had a hand in both the exposure of a covert CIA officer’s identity and the cover-up.

As one juror noted, Libby was surely guilty of his crimes but he also was most certainly “the fall guy.”

For the full Special Report on what the Libby conviction really means, go to the independent ConsortiumNews.com.

Scooter Libby’s conviction of lying and obstructing of justice in the CIA leak case could be the corner stone of the historical case against the Bush administration for waging a doomed, corrupt war in Iraq and lead to the restoration of American Democracy - if the remaining stones are put into place by the Democrats who now control Congress.

Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration, according to the AP and every other news organization and blogger in the mainstream media and the liberal blogosphere.

For simpllicity’s sake, here’s the AP story and the key facts.

Scooter Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Trial

Four guilty verdicts ended a seven-week CIA leak trial that focused new attention on the Bush administration’s much-criticized handling of intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war, the AP reports.

Then, the AP reminds us, again:

Campaigning in 2000, George Bush promised he would swear on the Bible to restore honor and dignity to a sullied White House and give it “one heck of a scrubbing.” The conviction of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby gave the White House a scrubbing - but not the one Bush had in mind.
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The verdict “does great damage to the Bush administration,” said Paul C. Light, professor of public service at New York University. “It undermines the president’s pledge of ethical conduct. But the most serious consequence is that it will raise questions about Cheney’s durability in office. It may be time for Cheney to submit his resignation.”

“But don’t count on it,” the AP reports. “Bush in the past has repeatedly come to the defense of his vice president.”

In fact, Bush may well pardon Libby. It will be up to the special prosecutor and the Judiciary committees in Congress to bring Cheney and Bush to heel in this scandal, in the form of oversight and investigative hearings.

What we want to know is, why is Larry King of CNN booking former White House press secretary Scott McClellan to talk about how he was “setup” and “lied to” by Libby and Karl Rove? Everyone who is anyone who knows the facts knows McClellan was the press secretary who made luvvy duvvy to gay male prostetute Jeff Gannon in the White House and lied to the press and the American people and the press about who knew what, when, in the CIA leak case.

He was in the same room in the same meetings with Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, et al.

If there was true justice in the world, McClellan would be under indictment for lying too, not out on the “speaking circuit” - pumping a new book and trying to continue the coverup.

And it is a coverup. A far more serious coverup than Clinton’s lying about his sex life - or Nixon denying knowledge of funding for the Watergate burglars.

While trying to create a corporate Republican majority in American politics for a generation, Karl Rove and company came very close to destroying American Democracy. They may have succeeded in the latter - and potentially cost the Republican Party an honest stake in the U.S. national government for some time to come. Especially if the Republicans nominate Rudi Giuliani to run for president in 2008 against John Edwards or Al Gore.

The Christians are already changing the channels from the Clinton-Obama show to Bonanza on bad, commercial cable. They will not be voting in ‘08 - which is an open opportunity for us educated liberals to take back the big show.

If the national Democratic Party has what it takes to lead: Guts.

The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, accused Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of participating in a “whispering campaign” to reveal Plame’s CIA identity and punish Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration’s motives in Iraq.

AP story