I'm Looking Forward, Too, Buster

So there's this debate going on about whether or not to prosecute the war crimes of the Bush Administration.

Obviously, the danger politically for the Democratic Party is that if they go after the war crimes, they look like vindictive pricks (not that looking like vindictive pricks has ever stopped the Republican Party).

Almost-President Obama, for his part, wants to "look forward" rather than back. Instead of punish the people in the government who broke the law, he seems content to simply reverse their decisions and stop performing those certain actions.

OK, so let's give this Nearly-President Obama fella the benefit of the doubt. Let's assume he won't break the law (through wiretapping, torture, and preemptive wars) at the rate that the outgoing administration has. Let's forget the bad times and keep positive moving forward.

Fine, but I'm looking forward. Let's say I look beyond an Obama Administration. At some point, we'll end up with another overreaching executive branch. And because we didn't hold a previous executive branch accountable for glaring illegalities, this future executive branch will assume that they can get away with anything. Because apparently, the president's office is above the law. I call horseshit on that, bitches.

Hell, man, I think it might be ugly, and I don't doubt that those on the right will scream that we're all vindictive pricks. But sometimes being a vindictive prick is what's necessary to do what's right.

I say we go after the crimes of the outgoing administration. I'd like to think that our government officials follow the law, too.

That goes for Jack Bauer, too.