Obama Injecting Poison

President Obama has opened up a Pandora's Box when he indicated Tuesday that he is open to prosecuting Bush Administration officials for legal opinions on enhanced interrogation techniques. Instead of bringing people together (as he had promised in the campaign), Obama is injecting poison into our body politic.

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial today on this:

Mark down the date. Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended. By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.

Policy disputes, often bitter, are the stuff of democratic politics. Elections settle those battles, at least for a time, and Mr. Obama's victory in November has given him the right to change policies on interrogations, Guantanamo, or anything on which he can muster enough support. But at least until now, the U.S. political system has avoided the spectacle of a new Administration prosecuting its predecessor for policy disagreements. This is what happens in Argentina, Malaysia or Peru, countries where the law is treated merely as an extension of political power.

This really doesn't come as a surprise to conservatives. This behavior from the left (radical liberals, Marxists, socialists, statists, etc.) is classic. They aren't interested in electoral victory, they seek to destroy opposition.

If Obama or the Democrats in congress press ahead on prosecutions or "investigations" (i.e., a witch hunt), you can expect all hell breaking loose in this country.

To read the full article, go here.