First of all, let me say this: are President Bush and Dick Cheney and the White House staff in contempt of Congress? That's the question. The answer is the same one that I think applies to the White House's assertion that they had no prior knowledge of the 2001 terror attacks involving planes flown into buildings: you want me to draw you a picture?

YES, THEY BLOODY WELL ARE IN CONTEMPT!!

The rule of law, that notion that Voodoo Priest Cheney finds so tiresome and outdated DEMANDS that they be found in contempt of Congress and summarily punished, even if that means Karl Rove, and the whole stinking lot of them are frogmarched out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in handcuffs. Should it happen? YES! Could it happen? YES again! WILL it happen? Difficult to say. The fact that it's even got to this level of brinksmanship is amazing by itself. What we're seeing here is the equivalent of two trains on the same track heading for each other at breakneck speed. This can't be good. I'm almost afraid to watch.

Clearly this poster has had entirely too much of the swill that passes for media coverage these days and is in some kind of meltdown. This is possibly the most unintelligible, psychotic rant I've read in some while.

Courtesy of "The Decider". Just in time for dinner.

If there was any question that George Bush does indeed think himself above the law, there is now no doubt. The president does in fact believe he is above the law. Only Congress and the courts can stop him now. But will they?

Our governor here in MA said what I and a lot of us are feeling.

"Instead of telling us what he feels, he ought to be telling us what he knows." On the face of it, it would seem another ominous warning of the kind we've been getting from this incompetent bunch of thugs since this whole thing began. They don't have facts, so they use scare tactics. Facts would help neutralize the threat and make us measurably, observably safer. Facts would shine a light on the terrorists' activities and make it less likely a terror strike would go off at all. But Sec. Chertoff's "gut feeling" obscures all that and keeps us in a state of free floating dread. Add to which both al Qaeda and the Taliban have reconstituted themselves, the former now being at pre-September 2001 level strength, and the anxiety deepens. What the hell are we supposed to do with a "gut feeling"? You can't build an actionable response to a "gut feeling" about another attack unless that "gut feeling" tells you to look in a specific direction, turn over this stone or that stone. Find something. Hell, I'm not Homeland Security Secretary, but I can read the reports and watch the trends and figure out this can't be good. Any intelligent American can connect the dots here. The next logical question is "What the hell are you DOING about it? Do you know something specific?" If Homeland Security's best effort in this case is to read the same tea leaves we're all reading and come to the same conclusion WE'VE ALL COME TO, then my gut tells me we're in for big trouble and God help us. Except this time, the Republicans with all their talk-tough-do-nothing rhetoric will be shown for the cowards they are. Because if this "war on terror" were being properly and correctly prosecuted, the results would look like this:

Osama bin Laden would be caught or killed, thus cutting the head off the snake.

The Taliban would be so weakened so as to be irrelelvant.

We would not be in Iraq right now.

More terror cells would be disrupted and terror plots stopped worldwide.

More actual terrorists would be in jail instead of more innocent people being tortured and held without evidence until "we" think they are of no value to us.

Since that hasn't happened, all we have left are vague gut feelings of impending doom. Much like Wile E. Coyote before the boulder flattens him. And the Road Runner gets away.

My dear God...could it be?

The most articulate spokesman for the lies this country has been run on the last 6 years...has a "come to Jesus" moment. The very model for the hypocrisy posing as moral character that so many members of the so-called "right" embrace is in fact, speaking what the rest of us know to be the truth. Unabashed. Unalloyed. No spin. No talking points. Showing these wannabes that what they want to be is not worth aspiring to and that the movement that they want to build their lives on is baseless and crumbling.

If this is genuine, and I'm not convinced that it is, Newt should show up somewhere and speak again. Say what he said again. To people who can hear it. Then I'll believe that the man has grown a conscience and perhaps begun to buy back his soul.