Obama needs to make a much better explanation of why his voting for this bill doesn't preclude evidence of Bush's illegal eavesdropping from being exposed in a court of law. To many people, it looks like he's caving in an just going along with the same old Washington politics that he has promised to CHANGE. It looks like Democrats are siding with Republicans to cover Bush's arse!

Posted at June 26, 2008 11:23 AM in response to Obama On FISA: Telecom Immunity Issue Doesn't Override National Security

If we were indeed a country of laws we would have already arrested the law breakers. However, politics is taking precedence over law, which makes us a country of popularity contests and feckless cowardly governors. If the current members of congress believed more in our laws and less in political polling, they would simply do what's right instead of what's expedient. Today's congress has more than failed our founding fathers, they've failed to appreciate, respect and honor the price that so many of our ancestors paid so our country could be free republic.

Posted at June 24, 2008 9:17 AM in response to Judge: Why Litigate When You Can Arrest?

I meant WWII!

Posted at June 17, 2008 12:06 PM in response to Today's Must Read

If this had happened during WWI, Harry Truman would have jailed the CEO and every executive who had anything to do with this and thrown away the cell keys. The criminal malfeasance and coporate profiteering planned, executed and perpetuated by the Bush administration is the greatest financial rape of the American taxpayer this country has ever seen. Sustaining our country's military preparedness has knowingly been made dependent on profit making whores who aren't just betraying our military, they are betraying our nation's security in a manner that is not only unconscionable, it is treasonous! The fact that Bush/Cheney set all this up makes them even more treasonous than the greedy rotten bastards at KBR.

Posted at June 17, 2008 12:05 PM in response to Today's Must Read

What was the legal basis for the granting of the appeal? Don't tell us an appeal was granted without informing us on what legal basis a judge granted it.

Posted at June 17, 2008 11:57 AM in response to Abramoff Crony Gets New Trial

The Wall Street Journal doesn't have the financial interests of the vast majority of middle-class, working-class or survival-class Americans at heart. They have always represented the interests of people who have stock portfolios and summer homes in the Hamptons. Sometimes I wonder if any MSM realizes that the vast majority of Americans don't have stock portfilos or vacation homes or 401Ks or a 3-car garage or au pairs or infinity pools or Lexus SUVs or wine cooler refrigerators or home theater rooms or......and nearly all of them don't have the time or the inclination to buy and read an elitist New York paper that has absolutely nothing in it that relates to their daily lives. Absolutely nothing!

Posted at June 17, 2008 10:06 AM in response to Obama Makes Economic Pitch To Wall St. Journal

All Cheney, Bush and Mukasey can do is delay the inevitable. I wonder what new laws might be coming before the House and Senate in 2009 that would address the complicity of Cheney and Bush in Libby's criminal conviction and in Valerie Plame's secret CIA employment status. How much difference will a Democratic President and Attorney General have on the enforcement of the investigative powers of a Democratic controlled congress?

Posted at June 16, 2008 1:22 PM in response to Bush, Cheney's FBI Interviews Subpoenaed

Imagine when the DOJ is run by Democrats with a Democrat serving as Attorney General and a Democrat serving as Preisdent. The one thing I'm sure of is that the law will be the determining factor instead of Executive Privilege or stonewalling or lost emails, or cover-ups or Presidential pardons. It's time to use every legal means available to congress and our courts to expose the criminals and bring them to justice no matter who they may be. Checks and balances and accountability are about to be vigorusly returned to American government.

Posted at June 16, 2008 1:13 PM in response to USA Scandal: Where Are They Now?

With each passing day McCain looks more and more like a desperate irrelevant wannabe wandering aimlessly from one small gathering of dwindling supporters to the next with no clue that fewer and fewer people care what he says and still fewer are willing to make financial contributions to a campaign that can't get up enough speed to get off the ground let alone pay for the gas to keep it flying. By the time the November election is held, McCain's polling numbers will be so bad that more Republicans will choose to stay home in embarassment rather than show their faces at the polls to cast a futile vote for John McCain. The Democrats are going to enter 2009 with a president in the White House and another 20 to 30 House seats added to their majority and a filabuster-proof Senate. Not only will Republicans be basically powerless, they will also have to endure the ignominy of Bush administration officials and employees testifying under oath before the investgation committees of Waxman, Conyers, Leahy, Boxer, Levin, etc. and proving to everyone just how corrupt, dishonest and malfeasant Bush Republicans have truly been. November isn't only going to be the end of Republican politics, it's going to be the beginning of Republican accountability.

Posted at June 14, 2008 12:32 PM in response to McCain: Sorry, Five Joint Appearances With Obama Just Won't Do It

It's not "giving up" when no matter what you do you're going to be ousted. It's called "losing". Giving up implies you have a choice, but losing isn't a choice, it's consequence of failing the people. The Republicans are going to lose the eight Senate seats they can't afford to lose because the voters are throwing out the corrupt and incompetent cronies and enablers that have earned rejection. The Republicans had the power to do the "right" things for the American people. Instead, they exploited them. The Republican brand has been bastardized to the point that only a completley new Republican party can have any hope of regaining the trust of Americans. For all intents and purposes, today's Republican Party is dead thanks to its support of George W. Bush. A generational change is taking place spurred by the disdainful values and methods of Bush Republicans. Americans are saying no more. Americans are revolting against the tyrants.

Posted at June 13, 2008 1:18 PM in response to In More Grim News, GOP Writes Off Two Key Senate Seats