Since Obama wants to reassure everyone by including Republicans, how about Patrick Fitzgerald for Attorney General?

One could spend a very long amount of time and money and efort in investigating and prosecuting them all.

Can anyone use that as an excuse to not prosecute crimes?

How about the big fish limit? Any fish smaller than a certain size is tossed back, (well used to testify in prosecutors favor).

For instance,
*The man who ordered the torture memo and the one who wrote it.

*What Fed prosecutors did to keep their jobs while the others were fired for not abusing their authority in influenceing elections.

*Who carries out the initial illegal wiretapping of Americans?

*Scooter Libby and the cloud that hangs over Vice Pres. Cheney.

*The false inormation to go to war crowd.

*The war profiteers and those that propagated their contracts.

Just a few for example.

Just before the Iraqi war, Bush made a big deal about not joining the world court. At the time I was nieve and couldn’t figure out why. It seemed like a thing a responsible country like ours would embrace. When he started saber rattling, I understood. Spit.

I think you are spot on that the elite in our society do not want to be held responsible for their own idiocy and irresponsibility. Heck, they don’t even want to pay their taxes…they’d rather ship jobs overseas. They’d rather have a war to destroy any government services at home that benefit poor and moderately incomed people. But, take away a tax break they have and they send a billion dollars to…which ever party happens to be in charge at the time. It’s time that this stopped and that criminals are kept away from the coffers, the military deployments, and the button.

“If that’s what America does, America will go down in flames. Guaranteed. This continued unwillingness to ever hold elites to account for their crimes and incompetence is a far bigger long term problem than the economy or Iraq or baby boomers, or medical problems or anything else. It is the core problem and as long as it is not solved, crisis after crisis will continue to occur.”

EXACTLY! Its pure unadulterated rot! America can do nothing without moral standing, without credibility, without standing for holding leaders accountable.

What on Earth is wrong with democrats that they would ever consider such a thing, that they still might not have learned the premier lessons of the last 35 years. Allowing the bush criminals to skate scott free would be an unspeakable act.