Free Rein=Fixing, Mobilization, Redirection, Overriding, and Orchestration

Here are some words from a peak oil dude, Richard Heinberg.
I'm posting it because I thought it was RumsfeldInvader-rrific (how ya like that adjective?), especially the stuff they were allowed to do in the free rein (reign?), whoa.

"The current administration came into office to...achieve and maintain virtually complete global hegemony and...unchallenged control of the world’s oil and gas flows. Tactics reserved to that endincluded pre-emptive war and “regime change” anywhere necessary. The U.S.corporate/banking/military elite gave the neocon-dominated executive group virtually free rein to pursue these goals. Given that group’s lack of a robust popular constituency, this entailed the fixing of elections, the mobilization of the media, the redirection of immense amounts of government revenue, the overriding of the Constitution as well as international laws and treaties, and the orchestration of a spectacular terrorist attack. The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld crew had its chance and, by near-universal opinion, achieved colossal failure on all counts. This failure was in fact predicted by many­ including the millions who marched in streets to try to avert the Iraq invasion. But the current tragicomedy of the neocons’ fall from grace can offer little satisfaction to anyone, in that it implies extraordinary perils to both the nation and the world."

That part is a bummer, but wait, Heinberg didn't leave us hangin. Here's the silver lining:

"Over the past few months the consensus of the traditional power elites has shifted dramatically: they have evidently (judging by their statements and by the attitude of the mainstream media) concluded that the neocon cabal must go. Washington prosecutors, backed by the establishment’s old-guard foreign policy “realists” inside and outside of government, are preparing revelations of scandals and the handing down of still more indictments."

OK, any day now. Feel free to scandalize away. You got Scooter and DeLay. But that Rummy dude has a thick skin. And Cheney, well, he shoots his friends in the face on a daily basis. You're gonna need the scandal of the century, like maybe one of the things he did during the free rein that you mentioned above. And some gutsy Congresspeople to push it, and a media more gutsy than the one Stephen Colbert skewered, oh, and 5 votes on the Supreme Court would be nice too. And while we're at it, I'll take an extra scoop of mint chip. Mmmm..