Plus, it's much cooler to shake you fist in the air and say "From my cold, dead hands..." than to discuss the subtleties of some pesky lawsuit.

You could say "...from my cold dead hands!" while holding a copy of the US Constitution. Just copy the simple militant rhetoric, which is really the only effective way to communicate an idea to the Neanderthal crowd. Although, I suppose the retort would be "Aw, that's jus' a goddam piece a paper."

It ain't all shiny like a gun.

They cheat to get theirs during the good times, and still want their reputations intact afterward.

It isn't enough that no one stands up to them while they are making hay, they still want our respect. Well you can't have it both ways. You play dirty and win dirty... you are dirty. Everybody knows it.

Naturegrrrl has got it right. The actions of these scumbags (going all the way to the top), turn the whole Republican mythology of personal accountability on its head. These people are the total antithesis of accountability.

The attitude is "oh, sorry, not our fault you didn't realize this is a dirty business. But hey, no hard feelings, right?"

Well, whether there are hard feelings or not is irrelevent; you've been exposed for what you really are, and since your career is built on the public perception of your credibility, you are essentially sunk.

The only fitting response is to pillory them as publicly and perpetually as possible. (alliteration unintended!). Make their names synonomous with deceit. The root of all their motivations is nothing more than the most vulgar of sophistry - profit through violence - and Glenn's comparisons to the schoolyard bully are therefore all too apt.

Well, the Chinese just named their aircraft carrier after the guy who conquered Taiwan...

Two can play at that game. We'll counter in the 21st Century American Way: put a war-mongering bumblefuck in charge. He'll learn em.

At least he had a successful career as a player. That's more than Wolfowitz can put on his resume.

Plus he'll always be loved in Detroit.

Wolfowitz is only loved in much less savory circles... like Right-Wing Think Tanks.

How has this survived anti-trust law to this day? The lobbyists who got it implemented were clearly worth every dime.

If it really is a matter of collusion, why is it only becoming a problem now? Assuming they could've colluded anytime in the last 100 years, especially during the very pro-business Reagan years, why have they waited so long?

You took the money, you kept the money. No get out of jail card for you! (or any former Bush staffers for that matter.)

You did the crime, now do the time.

Despite the use of the quotations around the "liberal media," he still manages to place the blame on them for not "doing their job." Would he really be forthcoming with any investigative reporters who didn't buy into the official party line? Even if they had been "doing their job" would he have acted any differently? I doubt it; I remember him being even less candid in press conferences than Ari Fleischer.

He's just the latest rat trying to make it off the doomed ship with his reputation intact.

OR maybe he's bitter because his offer from some conservative think-tank was lighter than he thought it should be. But he's not as special as he thinks he is; anyone could've awkwardly stood up there and issued unconvincing denials of anything contrary to the Party line.

McClellan's clumsy attempt to repair his tattered reputation fails miserably. He'll only serve to alienate himself from the neo-conservative faction he so ineptly served.

Am I alone in hating this word? Why does it even exist? There are plenty of adequate words that already exist in the English language that can be used instead:

Opposition

Resistance

Antagonism

Disagreement

Hostility

Disparity of opinion

and so forth...

Well, sure. They'd rather he objected then, so they could label him a liberal discontent and BURY him, instead of toeing the line and issuing an embarassing tell all years later. It takes a little more work to BURY the guy after the fact.

Although in the long run, they've proved that "tell alls" don't matter, no matter how revealing they might be. This nation of sheep doesn't read and doesn't care. Likewise for the sheep in the media. See, e.g., Paul O'Neill's "The Price of Loyalty."

I remember watching some of the earlier Republitard debates and thinking that McCain sounded like the sole voice of reason among Romney, Paul, and Huckabee. (though that's not saying much) I figured McCain getting the nom showed that the GOP realized the pendulum is swinging too far away from their hard-core, neo-conservative, war-monger base.

But I guess all the blowhard jackasses braying about how they could never support McCain scared him back into line.

In the end it exposes the dangerous fracture in the GOP's structure. They've alienated most of their more moderate elements, and I think this is the strongest evidence that the pundits already proclaiming a landslide victory for Obama in November have got it right.

As soon as the Democrats regain the White House, you'll see a 360* reversal on presidential power within Conservative thought.

A 360 puts you right back where you started.

... Soros and his "Shadow Government" were about to take over the US and turn us into a evil Communist dictatorship.

Weird they'd invite him to DC. Huh.

What are those Evil Liberal Elites up to? Some sort of Mind Control plot, no doubt.