These two apologists for BIG MONEY are making a move, under a bi-partisan smokescreen.
Baker was in charge of stopping the Florida recount. Christopher represented the Democrats in that dispute running around telling everyone to be careful not to incite a riot. Baker of course was not bound by such a rule and sent a planeload of demonstrators into the Dade County Offices bringing that recount to an immediate halt.
Baker is also chief counsel for the Carlyle Group and the Nation of Saudi Arabia, with his own office in the White House. He has also led the charge on debt forgiveness for Iraq, while inserting a special exception for Kuwait. As counsel for Saudi Arabia, he stopped a 9-11 victims lawsuit brought by surviving relatives, that sought compensation for the Saudis role in financing that attack.
Christopher led negotiations between the Clinton Administration and North Korea which led to a proposed Treaty condemned by #43. Rumsfeld profited directly from those negotiations in the business dealing which followed. But Shrub recently and inexplicably forgave the North Koreans for detonating a Nuclear Bomb, in violation of that treaty which Shrub never recognized.
Shrub has shown no respect for the rule of law, ignoring international treaties such as the Geneva Conventions, Kyoto and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty signed by Iran, the rules of the FISA Court, and generating endless signing statements in direct contradiction of the Bills he simultaneously signed. Bush has also violated the 1973 War Powers Act.
Clinton is the only civil servant in the history of the United States to have to defend against a civil lawsuit, while serving in office. A partisan attack fully supported in Clintons case by SCOTUS, but forbidden where Bush is concerned. Bushs exposure to lawsuits after he leaves office is substantial. This move is clearly designed to retroactively protect Bush and his cronies from lawsuits after they leave office. Christopher is being used to lend a bi-partisan-- flavor to the joke.
Our Constitution explicitly forbids retroactive legislation. Like the bill pending in Congress to retroactively immunize the Telecom Companies from lawsuits, following the law and our Constitution is only a requirement for little people. With enough money and power you can do whatever the fuck you want, because our Government is corrupt.
The question is: whose interests do these two crooks represent--? and do we live in a Democracy--?
