Once the first 100 hours had passed without note, I greatly suspected we’d elected the same party. The American people come second, perhaps even third, in every instance. No one seemed to notice when they struck American Samoa from the minimum wage bill, despite (or perhaps because of) Starkist Tuna, headquartered in San Francisco, employing 75% of the workforce there. Pelosi’s office denied any lobbying had transpired.

The democratic process may still function, but have we any need for it?

and who is surprised? nobody, that’s who.

this country has been bought and sold. doesn’t matter which party. bought and sold.

CYA: that’s been the number one rule in American politics for over a century. No one on here is at all surprised by the Dems lack of action. What’s surprising is how many people see them as angels and the Repubs as devils. They’re just two sides of the same coin.

I disagree that the investigations of the attorney firings is no more than a Democratic majority looking out for their own. There’s been compelling evidence that the firings are a concerted effort by this administration to position malleable attorneys in states that will most likely be in play in ‘08. Who better to pull the strings in a close election than a U.S. attorney? This scandal is political all right, but politics of the highest order.

This is not a scandal. It was labeled a “scandal” by people who wanted to attack Gonzales. He did nothing illegal just as the Clinton administration did nothing illegal when they fired 10 times as many attorneys. If you want to criticize Gonzales do it for the real reasons.

Hey, they put Al Capone in jail for tax evasion, for Christ’s sake. It’s a means to an end. Stop whining.

“remember, this doesn`t have to be Watergate, it doesn`t have to, you know, blow the president out of the water. But what it does do is, it opens a window on the way they work and the way they think.

Just to give you one quick example with probably the most famous prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, when it came time to appoint him, Karl Rove told the Republican senator from Illinois, No, don`t put him in, he might be too independent and go after the governor of Illinois, the Republican governor at the time, who was a crook, later, you know, convicted.

So clearly, what Rove was trying to do is in jurisdiction by jurisdiction, protect Republicans, go after Democrats, and essentially turn our criminal justice system into what they have in a banana republic.”
Jonathan Alter,Newsweek senior editor (On ‘Countdown’ 03/30/07)

No, it’s not watergate, watergate was an attempt… a successful attempt i might add, to subvert the electoral process to benefit their party… the republicant party.
Even though they were found to be guilty of this subversion they were allowed to remain a party instead of being split up like ATT.
What this is is an attempt, as usual, to put political appointees with little or no useful experience in positions of power in the justice department(remember brownie? what about the ex-oil industry lawyer that was appointed to the science dept who edited reports by scientist?).
In other words, politicization (is that a word?) of the justice department. Putting in a friend of Karl Machiavelly with no prosecutorial experience in a position that was occupied by a well respected prosecutor that apparently had more morality and fairness than what the Rovian masses display.

At what point do we say enough of illegal and immoral attempts at playing the sytem to keep your party in power and make the opponent look bad. It only serves to divide and weaken our country. Isn’t that the usual divide and conquer rutine?
Let’s add a few more viable parties, then they would be forced to have good platforms and achieve results rather than play political games in order to have unrestricted acces to the treasury.

Isn’t it funny that Shrub is griping about pork when his party has gone down in history as generating the most pork and waste in the last few decades?

Nixon orders secret mass murder in Cambodia, and he’s busted for a third-rate burglary in DC.

Al Capone runs a blood-soaked crime empire, and he’s brought down for tax evasion.

Bush kills thousands, empties the treasury, and leaves NAwlins to drown, and they start by nailing his lawyer for what amounts to obstruction of justice.

See a pattern? It works.

Look at the Repube apologists!

“Mikey” and “Jab” are drinking the same polluted KoolAid…

“Both Parties” are the same-that was the Repube strategy last election and look what we got…

Still a big difference-amd if No One votes, the repubes “Win” and We Lose…..More additions to the “Patriot Act”, more Monopolies, more businesses closing down, more unions going bust and workers losing their wages, and health care and pensions…

Oh, yea, Timmy, there is a difference-more wars, more poverty, lack of funding for education and less scholarships, higher tuitions, and it goes On…

Got Change?

The the Repubes Out….They are a Huge Danger….They are puffed-up with too much deregulated power….

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You politicize the justice department you politicize routine cases that run through the courts.

The result will be more partisan challenging of the law itself as a partisan tool for whoever is in office at the time. Worst case it would lead to civil unrest among the prosecuted which is a recipe for civil war. This is what the Bushies planned for the middle east and for the U.S. in thier “51%” political solutions. Any surprises here? Nope.

These people are dangerous to our way of life. They are not Americans, they are partisan republicans.

Read a little bit about what is going on in the DA’s office in Dallas in the last couple of weeks and you will understand why justice needs to be fair and impartial.Not some political tool to try to gather more power for you own party.

Word
“…The result will be more partisan challenging of the law itself as a partisan tool for whoever is in office at the time…”

Umm, yeah. That’s how it’s been done the last 250 years (or so). That doesn’t make it a necessarily good practice, but that has always been allowed. Calling an action that is a legal right for an administration to perform a “scandal” is ludicrous. It’s fine if you object to it, but I trust you were equally angered when the Clinton administration did essentially the same thing (only 10-fold), right?

Hey Word, what fart smeller is saying is what repube’s have always said to the general public. Politics is dirty, they play dirty, so shut the f@ck up and let them keep doing it.
While Clinton accepted the resignations of most of the attorneys at justice and decided to keep some republicans who had good records(as has been the tradition when changing administrations), the current administration decided to fire their own appointees, even though they had excellent records, for purely political reasons. Much different course of action(not using their positions to go after political opponents), but since they don’t have a leg to stand on, the GOP sends it’s agents to cloud the issues and create confusion among the voters because that is the only way they can hope to succeed.
Take for example the funding issue. They took away funding from the president to end the Kosovo conflict, did the same to stop somalia. They micromanaged those conflics from congress against the policies of the Clinton administration, yet whine like little children when the current congress excersices it’s power to do the same in this case.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these disgruntled soldiers returning from iraq and finding themselves totally unsupported at home by their government doesn’t break his brainwashing and actually kills the pres and high ranking members of the administration in order to bring this fiasco to an end(that would be a true patriot).
Can we truly afford to allow this bunch of liars and thieves to continue to lead our nation into destruction and status as a pariah state in the world?
Do we just shut the f@ck up as they want us to do and let them have their way or do we shout out in the way it was done by our parents in the 60’s and 70’s and call them out on their bullshit?
It is time to bring our troops home and let Iraqis decide their own fate.
Ramp up troop enlistment by enacting the selective service to replenish the militaries whith people from all classes, not just the poor, increase military spending to strengthen our defenses, greatly increase spending to remove oil as a fuel source, move away from a folly of wanting to use food as a fuel for our cars… it’s a sure way to drive up the price of food and the stock price of monsanto and adm. We could move away from petroleum fuels within 5 years if our leaders weren’t so addicted to the Blow Jobs they get from the oil and power distribution industries.

Wake up america, don’t let these people bully you and shame you into accepting the tactics they use to confuse and dissemble issues in order to sway public opinion. Realize that the GOP is the furthest from believing in democratic ideals of justice, self suffiency and equality for all.

Lets face it, this country is run by thugs,big business,CIA and ex-CIA folk and any one who has their hand in the cookie jar like oil companys. W

Lets face it, this country is run by thugs,big business,CIA and ex-CIA folk and any one who has their hand in the cookie jar like oil companys. We the people are just here to help pay for all this. wake up america

Jed
“…what fart smeller is saying is what repube’s have always said to the general public. Politics is dirty, they play dirty, so shut the f@ck up and let them keep doing it.”

No, what I said is it’s fine to object to the policy, but realize that this has been happening from both parties for hundreds of years. Nice try on spinning my desire to objectionable, nutjob.

C.Co.
Once again you have bought the Republican “talking points” without utilizing your critical thinking abilities. Yes, Clinton did fire all the attorneys, but he did it when he came into office. This is the normal procedure. Also, all his replacements did require congressional oversight. Since Bush and Co, snuck their Attorney replacement provision into the Patriot Act (I wonder how many other hidden provisions exist in there?) the Bush action was to fire the attorneys in the middle of their term, and attempt to replace them with cronies WITHOUT congressional approval. Emails uncovered (those that haven’t been destroyed) show convincingly that the reasons for these firings are purely political in nature (as is anything “MC Rove” is a party to). The “Justice” department is now self destructing because they all know that this is true, but are put into a position where they need to cover up. The irony here is that if this had happened before the last election, we probably wouldn’t even know about it. This scandal is part of a predominant pattern for this administration who will surely go down in history as one of the most corrupt EVER.

Gonzalez would have already “resigned” if this were any other administration. Now it looks like Wolfowitz will be fired instead. Ha Ha!

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Tom Dickinson write: “We’ve heard a claim that habeus [sic] corpus rights don’t exist, in spite of their black-and-white guarantee in the Constitution.”

To label this post under “Constitution-in-Crisis” is pretty ostentatious when you don’t even know what the constitution says. Habeas Corpus is a “privilege” not a right, and it can suspended under the constitution. There is no black-and-white guarantee.

I’m no fan of Alberto Gonzalez, just a fan of honesty. And based on the second paragraph of this article, how am I supposed to trust anything you say? My suggestion is that you actually know what the constitution says before you undertake this valiant effort of yours to protect it.

The sad thing is there are probably people who actually think they can get serious political commentary from a magazine like Rolling Stone.