The guy that cuts my hair is, believe it or not, gay. His partner, who was a successful executive, has a heart condition, so he had to retire, but assists him. They've been together longer than I've been married. They are, in every sense, as much, if not more, of a couple than my husband and I are. Ok. More. I would love to have the relationship they have with my husband. I learn things from them, about relationships. About unselfishly loving another human being.

They are a family, in every sense of the word. How can anyone condemn that? Discourage that? It's a wonderful thing to behold. An example.

I think few would argue "life" in it's scientific sense, begins at fertilization. The first stirrings of life. But that life has no cognition, no personality, no brain, until much later in the process. It is has potential. That is all it has. And when we, as a society, can reach a point where we can guarantee living, breathing, feeling, existing children will receive the basics, receive what is needed to reach their potential...then we can deal with the issue of abortion.

Abortion is a difficult issue, but so is the alternative. And if it was THE issue, why didn't Jesus address it? I can tell you one thing: If I were faced with the decision of my existing children being hungry if I had another mouth to feed, I'd choose to feed my existing children.

I believe Fitzgerald didn't pursue it because he couldn't prove the parties knew for certain she was covert.

What a slimy bunch of lying shits. Kudos Glenn...keep up the accountability drum...Somehow we need to publicly embarrass these clowns. This is how 59 million Americans could be so stupid.

Too intellectual for me....I'm a neophyte...You Greenwald posters intimidate me...

And maybe I've been naive, but I've never felt my president was utterly at odds with my country's interests before. But I feel that now. They are either clueless or diabolical. And I still don't know which of the two they are....but I don't think the dems are diabolical. Or clueless.

Ah Ingsoc...I hope to never be as skeptical as you. While I believe they have all sold out to special interests, to some degree, I don't believe, for a minute, Bush et al are typical sell outs. I believe they are incompetent zealot elitists that could lead us to catastrophe. And I can only hope that our military and the Congress has a plan to stop them.

The dems? I think they are tarnished and tainted but I think the public interests weigh in for them - perhaps not a much as they should. Bush has shaken them up. They are truly angered about what has happened to our international credibility and to the economically disadvantaged.

We're in the middle of a major historical crisis, and have been for over 6 years. We may survive it, or we may not. But to declare at the outset that we won't is, well, unfounded.

Like I said, lazy.

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On the contrary. I think we are saying we can't address the situation we are in today via ordinary means like "defunding" the war. We need to be talking big. Impeachment. Planning a coup in the event Bush wants to nuke somebody. Declaring an unplanned pull-out of troops a humanitarian crisis....Congress and the public needs to recognize who is in charge and what is at stake. I haven't given up. But this Administration has awed me in both their arrogance and their capacity to screw up. And I don't for one minute think they wouldn't purposefully screw up if they thought they could spin it to blame dems for Iraq.

Without a major turnaround, we will be done in by our own nationalism and xenophobia. Ironic...America, the land of the immigrants, destroyed by xenophobia and the debt of a war purported to save us all...

But king? That implies near-absolute power (and even kings typically do not have dictatorial power), that he simply does not have and which the evidence does not support.

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King? Maybe a little bit of hyperbole. But the examples you cite are either things Dick Cheney really didn't want or international issues they only wish they could control. How many times have you been shocked at what they've done? What price have they paid thus far?

Granted, the dem majority is changing the equation, but if you think Congress can control the terms of a troop withdrawl or an attack on Iran, you haven't been paying attention. They cannot do anything to prempt either, except by extraordinary means.

Michmod,

I already told you my opinion. Bush, regardless of what he thinks, isn't king and he isn't three branches of government. __________________________________________

You are right Kitt. But I think Congress would do well to think of all the possible responses he could muster to a defunding measure. And I would hope Congress would not assume, for a minute, Bush would only choose responses that are in the country's and/or the troops interests. They have shown us how petulant they are. And they know they could spin a precepitous withdrawl to be a dem failure if the dems defund the war. Would you put it past them? The dems can't control the withdrawl plans. Tragically, it means more lives must be wasted until the republicans unite with the dems....but in the long-term, I think, sadly, the costs of the alternative could be much higher..

We need to impeach Cheney. You know they removed six Navy commanders, I think it was last month. The story I read did not explore the issue very deeply.