While Glenn is correct that Yoo shouldn't be turned into a scapegoat, it is also beyond argument that he provided the legal cover for the creation of a torture regime; in other words, he was an enabler of odious programs designed by Bush "Principals," Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Powell, Rice and Ashcroft.

We should keep in mind that opinions by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) are considered what is permissible by the administration. While Yoo certainly didn't operate in a vacuum, he should be held to account for the criminal actions of his political masters in the White House. Nuremberg prosecutors were correct to execute Nazi leaders for their crimes, should the "little fish," the enablers have gone free?

Yoo acted as a "spearhead" for the Bush regime and should be held to account just as Graner and Englund were. Were others also responsible? Of course they were! This doesn't, however, mean that Yoo (or U.S. Ninth Circuit Court judge Bybee, for that matter) shouldn't pay a stiff price for their crimes. In other words, the "little Eichmann's" should join the big ones in the dock. Fire the bastard!

We've seen this phenomenon before, its called The Shock Doctrine, as Naomi Klein demonstrated in her fascinating book of the same name. As the Democrats embrace Bush's massive recapitalization of the financial markets, do you seriously believe they'll do anything to ameliorate the economic distress of ordinary Americans?

All this blather about "hope" and "change" is a pack of lies. Will the state not continue its massive outsourcing of governmental functions even were Obama elected? Will imperial wars and occupations of resource-rich countries in the global south not proceed apace?

Understand this, good people: this is a predatory system, capitalism. Its sole concern is the maximization of profit at the expense of everything else--the lives of the "little people" in the words of the late, though unlamented, Leona Helmsley; the environment; individual liberties, indeed the future of the planet itself.

Guess what? The "masters of the universe" don't care a whit for any of us. Our struggles simply to survive another day are so much lint to be brushed--or bombed away. The craven and cowardly Democrats are no better than their "colleagues" across the aisle. While they may not be knuckle-dragging Freepers, rest assured, as the last decades have amply demonstrated, they are militarist enablers of the worst sort.

Why its still the best Congress money can buy!

"Make the people understand that they will never do anything great, that they will never make revolutions for themselves, for their true happiness, except when there are no rulers involved in any way in their movement: they must not be so distrustful of their own resources, and convince themselves that they, the people, are sufficient to be able to carry out a great undertaking." -- Gracchus Babeuf, Paris, 1797

Glenn wrote:

"What we're seeing explode in front of us are both the devastating fruits of eight years of unchallenged right-wing rule under the Bush/Cheney administration and the tactics of a desperate, dying, rotted movement descending further and further into the sewer in order to cling to power."

All too true, Glenn. The problem with cornered rats and sewer dwellers like the theocratic-inclined Reps., is when cornered, they can strike out (and back) in ugly, unpredictable ways. Given the vile history of Rovian electoral tactics, would any sane person not contemplate they're capable of vote fraud on a massive scale... or worse!