Never mind.

[kitanzi]

I’ve taken down the post I made yesterday, because I can be a wordy idjit sometimes.

But my basic feeling remains the same. There are grudges from the last eight years. There are grudges from the recent election. What folks need to decide is would you rather be able to say “I told you so” or would you rather make things better? There will be plenty of chance for both – politics always provides excuses for criticism, that’s the nature of it, and we surely do need people who will work to make things better.

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

I actually thought that post was awesome. I just hadn't gotten around to commenting yet.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

It's your web log, of course, but I thought what you said was well thought out and well-written. Then again, what was it Asimov (I think) used to say about editing? Shorten it, then shorten it again, then shorten it some more!

Ann O.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I don't recall seeing it (of course, that means I probably commented on it :-P

My overall feeling is that we need to discover what actual crimes were committed in the last eight years -- there seem to have been plenty -- and mete out justice, as part of the process of making things better, in the same way an infection needs to be cleaned and sometimes lanced or cauterized before healing can happen.

The focus is on building something worth having -- our country and society -- but it can't happen if the foundation is permitted to stay rotten.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I agree.

My fear, and it's a very big one, is that the desire for justice will be overwhelmed by the desire for revenge. And no good comes from that.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I can understand the concern. I hope it's handled coldly and rationally, but implacably. Someone like Patrick Fitzgerald (who prosecuted Scooter Libby, and who would make an excellent AG) is the sort I want in charge, it it's not handled under Congressional auspices. (If it is, that means Rep. Waxman, I think, which could be FAR worse.)

Some number of folks will concede their guilt by implication, accepting pardons from the current lame duck. That may or may not preclude investigation, but we need this settled and closure to happen. Even just the act of investigating will settle many people's concerns that the guilty will be allowed to waltz (and the cycle begin again, just as many believe that failure to fully clear the air in the Nixon and Reagan Administration scandals have led to this debacle).