Bush might have the upper class patina. He might have money, and his family might be the "royals" of the nation.

That does not mean they have the essential lineage to talk to the Queen on her own turf.

It takes at least 300 or more years in Europe to establish a family lineage. Anything less is seen as parvenue riche. The Bushes are emblematic of trumped up rich people thinking they are aristocrats.

You can't buy blue blood.

He has a very convenient lack of memory. Wait until we hear from someone who actually knows something, just to refresh his memory. Bet he will find a big hole to crawl into.

The collusion between the Congress and the administration leads one to believe that nothing is going to happen to anyone in this administration short of forcible removal from office.

Everyone is in everyone's pockets, financially, politically or otherwise.

It is a completely corrupt government and to ask for anything like reform is like trying to ask a tiger not to hunt. It's impossible.

I believed before that it could happen, and have been sadly disabused of any notions like that. It is a fantasy.

Nobody in Washington truly gives a damn about what the American people want, need or feel.

Let's face it, we elected them, they don't care anymore-they've got their lifetime job, so shut up already.

It's too bad that Matt Drudge is the lowest common denominator for the Republicans-imagine what he could do if he were to turn into a Democratic "operative" in writing the Drudge Report.

My best guess is that we would have impeachment hearings a whole lot sooner and all the dirt on the Republicans would be coming out in waves.

Instead we get another spin-meister promoting the worst candidates in the world for the sake of his ego.

Why isn't there someone on the other side doing the exact same thing? Funny how that isn't the case, because we could sure use it.

This much is true:

If they can, they will.

Of course nobody's paying attention to the loss of our privacy rights. There's a "War against Terror" on.

Problem is, whose terror and who's fighting it? Seems like we're the ones who ought to be terrified at the immense powers of the administration, which grow expotentially everytime I turn around.

Next they'll wiretap your sandwich at Mickey D's to make sure you buy the right kind of food. Not enough that you can't have trans fats!

Why don't we ship Cheney, Bush and the entire US Government over to Iraq for the rest of their term and see how well they do running it? I'm sure they would be able to really screw it up just by being there-no worse than what it already is.

I wish Cheney would remove the foot that seems to be permanently lodged in his mouth, take his memory pills and shut the hell up.

He cheered this war on. He wanted this war. He supports this war.

Other people are fighting it. He gets the benefits.

Other people get the bodies, the bills and the blame for HIS war.

Does this mean McNulty is also under investigation for the prosecutor purge?

After all, he was the #2 guy at the DOJ, and had testified before the Judiciary Committee.

Wonder if Alberto is shaking in his boots yet? It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. She's not even warmed up yet!

Wow. I've never liked John Ashcroft, but after reading that testimony, he seems almost heroic in retrospect when it is stated he did not think the wiretapping done by the NSA (which is probably what Gonzales was after) was legal and would not sign off on it.

To attempt to wrest a signature from a very sick man in his hospital bed in hopes of getting his approval for a program he didn't think was legal is even more damning.

Nevertheless, the program was started; but it wasn't legal then and it isn't legal now, despite what the White House thinks.

Sometimes I regret Ashcroft resigned. He might have been the biggest horses' ass in the world, but at least he knew law, unlike his successor, who wouldn't know a legal act if it hit him the face.

I'm not a hypocrite (unlike Falwell), so the first thing I did when I heard that he had died was cheer.

He was a hateful, bigoted man posing as a Christian. I wonder if St. Peter slammed the gate shut and told him to go to the other place because that's where he belongs.

One can only hope.

Why does everyone on the right think that this scandal is a minor one? Does not the innate criminality and corruption of this administration raise some eyebrows? Doesn't anyone have any ethical or moral compass when it comes to law?

It is plain to me (an ordinary citizen) that this administration has broken more laws in the past 6 years than Nixon ever dreamed of; they have broken them with impunity and have had the sheer nerve to pass them off as being for "the good of all Americans".

When will someone in Congress finally get the courage to stop this insanity and start the impeachment hearings? Isn't there already enough testimony and evidence to convict all of the administration of high crimes and misdemeanors?

Watergate was about bugging the Democratic headquarters. This is about bugging the entire United States. There is a difference.