Wilma Pauses as Cosmic Choreographer Fine Tunes Timing.

As if waiting for Patrick Fitzgerald to make his move, Hurricane Wilma is cooling her jets over Yucatan. It's almost as if the storm is making an effort to become a metaphor. The political storm that is about to engulf the nation could inexorably alter the political landscape in much the same way that Katrina rearranged New Orleans.
Tom DeLay demanded that the judge in his case recuse himself, thus pushing the drama into next week.
The good news is that democracy is taking root in Iraq. So Americanized is their electoral process that they're voting Chicago style, early and often. Reports are that some districts had more votes than registered voters. Martha Raddatz of ABC News reported that her cameraman taped many instances of voters casting multiple votes, one she described as handing seven yes votes to the poll worker who cheerfully put them in to be counted.
Among the many cliff-hanging questions that may be answered next week is a possible indictment of Dick Cheney. But that pales in the light of the rumors that were aired on Hard Ball today. Discussing the report that Fitzgerald had asked for copies of Italian documents that proved that forgeries were used to try to prove that Saddam tried to acquire so-called "yellowcake," Chris Matthews and his guests speculated about indictments alleging a "conspiracy to lead us to war." At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I have to say that I gasped audibly when I heard that. Many of us have known for many months that Bush lied to lead us to war in Iraq. Will that conviction be proven to be true? Will that truth lead to convictions?
Can a Special Prosecutor initiate an impeachment of the President? Can Bush be indicted? I'm thinking that we'll have to wait for a Democratic majority in Congress for Bush to be impeached in '07. But if the President were to be indicted would Republicans refuse to impeach him? Are they that unpatriotic? If you ask me, he should be impeached if Rove, Libby, and Cheney are indicted; he deserves to be impeached for lying to us and the Congress to get his dirty little war.
Maybe Gee Dubya will be named as an unindicted co-conspirator. There may be a law that protects a sitting President from being indicted - Bush's lawyers would certainly try to claim "Executive Privilege." What would Republicans do in that scenario? I doubt that they would do the right thing, they're already putting out talking points in case of indictments. Like Marvin Gaye said..."(It) makes me wanna holler, throw up both my hands..." Those scumbags will overlook treason in favor of partisan politics.