Married to the Mob: Only Impeachment Will Get America a Divorce

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Last week, we were watching the original "Godfather" film on cable television, and – being BuzzFlash – we couldn’t keep our head from popping with political analogies.

BuzzFlash was – on an ongoing basis – one of the first websites, back in 2001, to compare the Bush and Cheney administration to an organized crime family. At that time, we were generally dismissed by the mainstream media as kooks.

Now, even some mainstream columnists and editorial boards have started to realize that the concept of the Busheviks functioning like the mob is not an analogy pushed to the extreme.

If we were to look at character by character comparisons with the "Godfather," clearly Cheney is the Marlon Brando father of the clan – and Alberto Gonzales is a dumbed down version of the Robert Duvall "consigliere."

That leaves Bush as "Fredo," the weak, sniveling younger brother who ultimately betrays his family by giving away the travel plans of his older brother and "Godfather-to-be," played by James Caan, who is gunned down as a result.

(Ironically, Bush refers to Gonzales as "Fredo," bestowing one of his childish nicknames on the Bushevik mob "consigliere.")

But what struck us most about how the Corleone family controlled mob insiders was this: loyalty and fear were two sides of the same coin.

And that is true of the Bush Administration. Al Capone eluded Eliot Ness for years, until the Chicago mob legend was jailed for the relatively – in the scheme of his crimes – minor charge of income tax evasion.

How did Capone avoid indictment on all of his major crimes over the years?

He, as in the Godfather, was able to demand loyalty through rewarding people for their allegiance, but also through instilling a dread of retribution in them if they broke the code of silence.

So it is with the Bush Administration. If you are loyal – whatever your incompetence – you are promoted. If you are disloyal, everything is "fair game" in bringing you down.

Just ask a host of former Pentagon generals, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Paul O’Neill, John Dilulio, Richard Clarke – and a long list of others who have dared speak the truth.

Betray the Omerta of the Bush-Cheney organized crime family and retribution is quick and certain.

The Bush-Cheney line of defense is that if you can’t prove we have broken the law in a court, you can’t touch us – and you can’t prove that we broke the law because we control the Justice Department and the Federal Courts. Therefore, Congress can uncover clear lawbreaking, but it can’t get the Justice Department to pursue prosecution, because the White House has prohibited it from doing so.

Besides, how is Alberto Gonzales going to permit the indictment of himself?

From Karl Rove’s perspective, he has Congress checkmated, even if the head of the FBI basically says that Alberto "Consigliere" Gonzales lied before Congress.

Now, the White House is reduced to claiming that Gonzales didn’t commit perjury because he was talking about a different illegal White House domestic spying program than the illegal White House domestic spying program that U.S. Senators of both parties thought he was talking about. (This, even though, senators, congressmen, the acting Attorney General at the time, and the head of the FBI dispute Gonzales’s ever-shifting version of the infamous visit to John Ashcroft’s hospital bedside. But, remember, this was only one of the perjury counts Gonzales committed before Congress, not to mention his direct involvement in everything from sanctioning torture to signing off on illegal White House behavior to dismissing prosecutors for purely partisan purposes.)

We guess all Bush can say is, "You’re doing a heck of a job, Alberto."

But remember that the Sara Taylors, Harriet Mierses, and Alberto Gonzaleses of the world are both loyalists to the code of Omerta and scared sh*tless of what will happen to them if they start telling the truth.

You can’t negotiate with the mob.

The same applies to Bush and Cheney.

They are going to continue to use fog and mirrors to claim that the Bushevik mob family insiders have not "technically" broken the law.

That was Al Capone’s defense. "Catch me if you can," he dared the FBI.

It’s time for Congress to put an end to mob rule in America, which began with a silent coup through the theft of an election by a mobbed-up Supreme Court "5" in 2000.

It’s time to restore the Constitution as the document upon which America’s government and system of jurisprudence is built.

It’s time to impeach Bush, Cheney and Gonzales.

The Bushevik mob gives Congress no choice.

Senators and U.S. Representatives must do their duty, unless they want the spirit of Al Capone to continue to turn America into a nation run by lawless crooks.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

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