No, Keith. Resignation is not the answer.
by Monica Smith [courtesy of Blog for America]
That was the mistake we made last time--letting Nixon resign and leave all the rats in place. Bush and Cheney do nothing but give orders and their minions carry them out, secure in the thought that blind obedience absolves them of personal responsibility for the consequences of their hubris and misbegotten ambition.
What we need to remember is that the reason the current occupants of the White House think fondly of Harry Truman is because he said, "the buck stops here," implying that everyone else in the hierarchy could pass the buck with impunity. Of course, the mistake Bush Two has now made in commuting Libby's sentence is that he spent his own buck and his fingerprint is still on it.
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