A record of Lieberman's utterly mendacious comments during and after the most recent election is a well-nigh perfect example of a corrupt politician.

He's just paying the price of his office. He would not BE a Senator now if he hadn't said everything he's said. The people who paid for his election expect certain things. They're getting what they paid for.

I always thought, somehow, that people in Connecticut were smarter than the average. I guess I was wrong. Or, at least, wrong about the Democratic voters who gave Lieberman the margin he needed for victory. GOP voters voted for him en-masse, that was part of the plan. But the fact that so many Democratic voters actually voted for the guy instead of Lamont just boggles my mind.

And let's not even get started on how the DNC abandoned Lamont.

Although, in the DNC's defense, they probably knew that Lieberman was a quisling, but his victory made it possible for the Dems to take over the Senate. That's a good thing...even if the price was Lieberman. Hell, the DNC and Lieberman probably had a deal in advance: you support my candidacy, and I'll caucus with the Dems.

Dems taking over the Senate has meant subpoena-power. That's worth 10 Liebermans...we can but hope.

It's all pretty disgusting, nonetheless..

The right-wing lies about science. Again.

How do these guys look themselves in the mirror in the morning, anyway? Maybe they carry their bank-book around with them, and hold it up to the mirror too, so they can be reminded just how profitable it can be to lie about science.

as a matter of basic psychology, I've long thought that the reason the right tosses Hitler into so many of their screeds against their opponents, was pure projection.

They know that *they* are the Hitlers. Or, they sense it, anyway. The correspondences are too close to avoid.

so they evade the name that belongs rightfully to them, by trying desperately to stick it onto someone, anyone, else.

It's a common, even simple-minded ploy. The fact that they do it at all is not only neurotic, it's a clear indication of the contempt they have for their own constituents...since any reasonably intelligent person sees right through them.

Unfortunately, much as I hate to admit this, these subpoenas, and these letters, are all just window-dressing.

Bush and Cheney will just put the whole thing into the court system, at enormous expense to all of us, the taxpayers, and eventually the question will make it to the Supreme Court, where Bush's bought-and-paid-for (metaphorically speaking) pet Justices will rule 5-4 in his favor, and he's off the hook.

The Democratic congress will never see a single thing Bush doesn't want them to see.

The Dems have only one choice if they really want to do something about this lawless president: Impeach him. And cheney.

Anything other than that will get tied up in the courts until Bush leaves office.

It really is brilliant, when you think about it. I imagine Cheney and Bush knew this would be the drill from the start, if the Dems ever took congress.

Our system is deeply flawed, that this can happen. But, in a sense, it's the revenge of the founding fathers: They designed the system to protect *themselves* from the people, and it works beautifully for that purpose.

Say what you will, our peculiar system of republican, representative government was created, by design, to protect those with power and money. It has been ever thus, and so it will be.

Only revolution would end it...and even then, the rich would rule again.

....but this is just another attaboy. Great article.

Do you sent these things to the editors at CBS news? To the editors and publishers at the Washington Post and the New York times?? Because you should.

These guys are reprehensible. Repeating lies, not having the guts to get the story right, and tell it truly. Hell, if the BBC can figure out what happened, why can't Joe Klein?

George Orwell would be pleased with the Beeb....but would look at us and say "what the hell went wrong over there?"

Surely the Administration knows what happened. But, of course, they'd rather lie about anything and everything than tell the truth...especially a truth that makes us look like murderous idiots.

the real story here is: how in hell did the US military engage in such a grotesque and bloody mistake? How? Wouldn't it just figure if it was al-qaeda fighters who tipped the military to attack the police force that was trying to *prevent* an attack from al-qaeda? That'd be about right.

I'd like to know just how the military decided to execute that attack. Did they have any clue who they were killing?