I was a child when Watergate drove President Nixon from office.

Could we actually be seeing history repeat itself 30 years later?

My take is of course Bush knew about what Rove was doing. Of course Cheney knew what Scooter was doing. There was a concerted effort to discredit, if not destroy anyone who would not subscribe to the official script. What the special prosecutor is waiting for I have no idea.

I believe Karl Rove and Scooter Libby will be indicted and they should be. Patrick Fitzgerald ought to widen his investigation to ask "What did the president and the vice president know about this, and when did they know it?" I'm sure there's plenty of evidence. Lie builds on lie like a house of cards which is about to come crashing down. As I've said before: if we're hearing about impeachment of Bush and Cheney in the next year or so, just remember you heard it here first.

Well, the Republican attorney from New York is trying to out Rove Karl Rove. Like so many of these so called "gaurdians of virtue", they seem to have slept through the lecture that deals with double standards and hypocrisy. There seems to be no depth to which these modern Puritans won't sink in order to get elected.

Democrats (who admittedly may not have a better answer on this whole sex offender issue) being equated with child molesters and rapists. That's pretty radical. She says we (New Yorkers) don't want them next door. But they also don't want poor people or black or Hispanic people, or homosexual couples next door to them either.

Chances are they wouldn't want Iraqi refugees from our war next door to them either. I guess the GOP hasn't figured out that pandering to fear isn't working so great now that most of us (62% if the latest poll is right) know that the Emperor has no clothes. So she may as well be saying VOTE REPUBLICAN! KEEP THE UNWASHED MASSES LONGING TO BREATHE FREE AWAY FROM OUR PLANNED COMMUNITIES. The jig is up, honey. Drop out. Go home while you still have a chance.

I said to a friend the other day that the presidency of George W. Bush could correctly be called the "Jesus Freak Administration", hijacked as it is by so-called Christian Conservatives whose God is little more than a sick revenge fantasy. I said to her that the problem with these Jesus freaks is that they're a lot less like Jesus and a lot more like freaks.

The born-agains got their wish: a born-again president. God help us all. My read of the Gospels and the letters of Jesus' closest disciples leads me to think that this administration is not at all what Jesus had in mind. Interestingly, the people of his time became disillusioned when this carpenter-prophet did not move to overthrow the Roman government that ruled Israel and Palestine at the time. To watch him heal the sick, give sight to the blind and even raise the dead, it was clear he had the power to if he so chose. But Jesus was about a much more profound kind of change than just a change in government. The oppressed population didn't get that, so it became easier to allow him to be executed than to really listen and understand. Jesus knew the government as it was was a symptom of a much deeper problem. So it is today and his solution still applies in my judgement.

Despite all of his statements about faith, President Bush does not have an active spiritual connection that I can discern. As Jesus said, "Not everyone who calls me 'Master' is my disciple. At the judgement, they will say, 'Haven't we done all these things in your name?' And I will say, 'I don't know you.' " Now I'm not suggesting some Grand Inquisition like the Christians believe is coming. I think the judgement is probably more personal than that. George Bush's day of reckoning is not far off. Depending on how you frame the argument, the chief sins of this administration are pride and arrogance with a healthy dose of hypocrisy. Even the old testament God of wrath particularly despised these sins. Jesus had no patience for the hypocrites of his day either.

So it seems to me that the circumstances unfolding for Bush and Co. follow scripture exactly. Pride goes before a fall, and haughty spirit before destruction. May I also add that the fall comes with a certain amusing irony.

Senior Editor Joan Walsh's piece on the real meaning of the CIA leak case brings the repercussions of a Beltway culture where "destroying lives is considered sport" home for the average person to see. It is as grim and sobering as one could imagine.

We have in our government, at the executive levels, a dimwit who cannot string two sentences together without help as President and Commander-In-Chief. We have as Vice President, a cold, calculating, and sinister man with an axe to grind against some nameless, faceless enemy. I have been angry before and called these people petty thugs. It turns out I was only half right. If the revelations of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigations are to be believed, the administration is in fact, hell bent on pursuing its own agenda even of it costs people, ordinary, average American citizens their lives, not to mention livelihoods, as in Ms. Plame's case, but she surely isn't the only one. That makes these people and all who aid them, people like Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, more than thugs. It makes them murderers. Impeachment and removal from office should be the first remedy. Then they should be tried for war crimes, convicted and sent to prison.

What an ignominious end to an administration that promised to bring "honor and dignity" back to the Presidency! In fact, this group of people has run a government so corrupt, it makes Nixon look like a choir boy.