They'll put on this show to distract the sucker bag-holders (AKA taxpayers) from the real outrage, backstopping the bondholders of AIG and all "to big to fail" Ponzi entities with tax payer dollars.

The government gives sanction to this Ponzi finance system and will continue the game till default or destitution for the late great middle-class.

Can't wait to see the "haircut" SS beneficiaries are expected to take to enable this scam.

They would control the sale and production of pot the way they do alcohol. Imprisonments would decline, tax revenues would increase, and people would have a valuable medication legitimized.

The fact that marijuana is listed as a schedule 1 drug, along with heroin, after extensive studies (some funded by the Feds) showing the efficacy of it as a medicine, must be a real embarrassment to the right wing ideologues.

I imagine it goes back to pot being a symbol of the hippie sub-culture and the Rights' contention that we would have only won the Vietnam War if it wasn't for those anti-American hippies and their pot culture.

Thanks Glenn

You are the vanguard of the new journalist Glenn. The old school papers are dying quickly. So be it, what have the twin toadies of political opinion enable recently? War and recession.

Let the internet pick up where Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin left off.

What about the continuing (as far as we know) abduction and "rendering" of people all over the world at the Administration's whim? What about the spying on Americans via monitoring their communications?

Destroying tapes investigation is a red herring to keep the focus off of continuing Constitutional violations by the rottenest Executive ever.

Thanks so much for all of your good work exposing cretins like this.

It is so good when the indictment happens by their own words.

This country would probably be better off devolving into Federal Republic.

He is obviously of the administration.

Drips off of the neocons like sweat off an NBA player. They know the game is getting short and it will most likely be a long time till they get another dupe like Bush or hawk like Cheney.

Boylan is a Bushite, and one of the requirements is that you must behave like an incompetent fool.

The argument "do it for the children" might be a bit more heart rending.

Anything to kow tow to your masters heh slave.

Poor Verizon, might have to take a $100 million charge to the almighty bottom line. Screw Verizon and their lawbreaking enablers, should've thought about that before capitulating to the biggest criminal that occupied the WH.

But they're OUR fascists.

Doh!

You have walked away from a Constitutional republic in too many ways to play by your own rules. Whatever reasonable method regains our constitutional --quickly-- is the order.

They are a pragmatic sort--whatever works is their credo.

The party of responsibility has become the party of no consequences. It doesn't matter if you cheat, steal, lie, or kill as long as your intentions are "good."

The telecom pardon? Congress says, "show me the money."

Once their heroes attack Iran they assume the polls will be with them, and they probably are right--at least for 6 months.

The best chance against the "institutions that succor" these sycophants? Growth of this here technology. The blurring of the line between computer and TV is the best chance for winning the battle of interpreting reality, and a trend back toward sanity.

One good thing about airing Ahmadinejad yesterday was it exposed him as human and a slippery politician. He was as deft as any American politician at avoiding questions he didn't like, and spinning his sketchy decisions in the past. Now here's a guy Americans can relate to.

That's a tough one.

"I am not too sure about torture...but I can GUARANTEE you they know how to EXECUTE a prisoner a lot better AND faster than the US does!"

--Anonymous

But I GUARANTEE you Anonamouse, the US incarcerates a far greater percentage of its citizens than Iran.

I think Iran. They are probably a lot less efficient than our secret police in torture techniques and have a much better tradition of hospitality to foreigners than the US.

For evidence look at the treatment of US hostages held in Iran compared to Jose Padilla.

Ideas, plans, and models of the equipment needed to uproot and haul away this toxic invasive species is needed.

My thought is judicial counter-attack via ACLU type of organization as the last best hope.

Explain to me how the perpetrators of the arrest, incarceration, and torture of an American citizen without any due process or Habeas Corpus rights were not brought to justice.

I know this is one case (that we know of) but what is to prevent this from happening to anyone?

Its probably too late, but it is responsible and good for the spirit of freedom to act differently.

We're a silver-platter first-world fascist state.

The plea for the Telcos is the Cheney way to let them slide under the door on the same oily rag.

"Take Rudy seriously? Naahh...

Why should we take Rudy seriously? He’s not very bright, with a propensity for self-mythologizing and has precious little foreign policy experience or know-how, which is why the MSM rarely calls him on the recklessly stupid comments he regularly makes. [Guns on planes? Sure!] I mean how could we ever elect a guy with those qualities? That would be crazy!"

because he looks like a freaking genius next to Shrub.

I have no doubt this guy could be our next Preznit. Especially if the present regime attacks Iran or there is another terrist attack.

-- Wabanatta_3

Good stuff. Do I site you if I use this?

To all of the pinheads that see anti-Semites and Zionists in every shadow, as Butthead would say "Ah, why don't you just go away or something."