Morning Joe Idiocy - August 25, 2009 Edition

I was watching Morning Joe this morning and the cast (and really I do consider this a cast as I have explained in the past and not actually a panel) was discussing the investigation into prisoner abuse allegedly perpetrated by CIA operatives and government contractors during the administrations of George W. Bush. What spurred this discussion was the release of partially declassified memos by the Obama administration detailing some information about events that have been hinted to have occurred, but previously unconfirmed.

What irritated me about the conversation that took place on the subject was the continued insistence by all gathered (including host Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Savannah Guthrie, Jonathan Capeheart, Pat Buchanan, and Richard Haas) that these charges were not new and that they had already been investigated by “career prosecutors,” and not political appointees, back in 2004 or so. Now this reasoning would be all well and good if not for the fact that the career prosecutors might be biased toward a particular political party (I’ll explain later) and the notion that career prosecutors cannot possibly be overruled by their political hack political appointee bosses is incredibly naïve.

And to add to this, the morons kept pointing out that Obama keeps saying that he wants to look forward not back but yet is “allowing” Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the actions of the previous administration. This is precisely why these people are borderline stupid. These people must be pining for the days of yore when the Attorney’s General Office and the Justice Department acted at the political whims of the executive branch and not as an independent entity. They must certainly be forgetting that this sort of thinking and illegality led directly to the torture regime that we had in the last administration, or they are inhuman, sadistic monsters like former Vice President Dick Cheney.

But let’s back up for a moment. Since career prosecutors have already looked at this information and nothing has come of it, then that clearly means that there must be nothing to it, right? Absolutely…if you are stupid, you are as naïve as a ten-year old, or you are a political hack like Joe Scarborough. Obviously these people are forgetting, or are choosing to ignore, the fact that during this time the Justice Department was under John Ashcroft and then Alberto Gonzales. While I am not 100% certain about Ashcroft, I am absolutely sure that the sycophantic Gonzales would have done anything and everything in his power to kill any investigation that led to top administration officials being held criminally responsible for their law breaking. So for this reason alone, the insistence by these hacks that these charges have already been looked at is patently absurd.

But let’s revisit this implication that they are making that these career prosecutors are somehow immune from political hackery. Evidently these morons are forgetting (or again are choosing to ignore) the fact that there was this big scandal where a certain political hack named Monica Goodling, who worked for both Ashcroft and Gonzales at the Justice Department, broke federal law by hiring only prosecutors for career positions who were Republicans or conservative loyalists.

So, idiots, do you think that any of this might have stopped these prosecutors from doing a real investigation into whether or laws were broken during this torture regime?