Click my name.

I agree with this dKos diarist that the GOP is made up of cowards. That's not news for anyone who has been paying attention since the Willie Horton ads in the 1988 Election.

But this is being cheered as some sort of return to our judicial principles when, as Glenn, Turley and others have pointed out, these are show trials.

This is really simple. Try the accused, if they are guilty sentence them, if they are not, release them, even if their host country won't take them.

I'm sure the FISA court would provide a warrant so the FBI can keep an eye on them, especially now that we aren't going after medical pot growers and New Orleans hookers.

Actually, with the evisceration of the FISA law and the orwellian Patriot Act, they probably don't need a warrant.

Holder's pair is larger than a typical GOP bedwetter, but he needs to grow a larger pair and try everyone in federal court. It's really simple.

Hi Glenn,

Great work as usual.

I was able to replicate Jebbie's error by using Internet Explorer 8 (the latest) on Vista. Sometimes it will not have "Active Scripting" enabled. There are also some other funky settings that the wrong combination can make things not work correctly. Finally, sometimes there is a incompatible browser add-on that will screw things up.

This may not be it, but as a web developer I have ran into these kind of issues many times recently with folks who have new computers running Vista/IE8. I have attached a troubleshooting page from Microsoft's IE Blog to my name. Sorry if you have already tried this stuff.

I actually don't like IE 8 and only use it when a certain website requires it. Firefox and Safari are my browsers of choice. But I'll get off that soap box for now.

I heartily agree with both of you that the "continue reading" sucks big time. Hey Salon, UT wasn't broken, so don't try to fix it!

I love the way he refused to yield. Click my name to give Grayson some love.

But I would hope he would also direct his ire toward some of his fellow democrats who also voted for ACORN defunding.

They need to be schooled as well. Hell, even if they can't figure out this "Bill of Attainder" question, then perhaps it could be calmly explained to them that they shouldn't VOTE TO DE-FUND GROUPS WHO REGISTER PEOPLE THAT TEND TO VOTE FOR THEM.

The democrats are as stupid as the republicans are evil and corrupt.

Really, this is some great stuff, read some more, it's priceless:

http://tinyurl.com/wingnutistan, or click name

As a daily reader, I really enjoy Glenn's writing, even when I don't entirely agree. It is always my first stop in my daily blog tour.

But this is one of Glenn's best pieces he has ever written.

If we are able to reassert citizen control over our government, then it will be due in no small part to the work of Glen, Digby, the great work being done at Firedoglake, DailyKos, and many, many others. Sorry for leaving them out, but the list is too long.

Reforming out polluted political environment won't be because our Media Stars suddenly remember what their 4th estate role is. Realizing that one is wrong and taking the corrective steps takes maturity. Our media stars behave like petulant, spoiled middle school brats. They demand that they not have their "reputations sullied on TV" even if they can't identify any false claims. They throw childish temper tantrums when someone criticizes their work that they can't refute with facts. They dress up like Hugh Hefner and gossip about irrelevant topics while the country faces serious problems.

I have a pretty low opinion of politicians in general and republicans in particular. I think members of our political press are worse.

I listened with disgust Lanny Davis' defending of the coup in Honduras.

I might note quickly that I wouldn't characterize Zelaya as being "left-wing", at least my definition of it. He was seen mostly as a center-right politician. His crime was instituting a modest minimum wage bill and signing an oil deal with Venezuela (after signing the free trade deal with the US).

But, yes, Lanny Davis is more of a whore than Daschle is, and that's saying something. At least Daschle restricts his whoring to the Health Care industrial complex. Davis will whore for anyone, and his whoring is destructively global in scope (Honduras, Gaza).

When I say whore, I mean no offense to sex workers (h/t Mike Malloy).

Click my name for one analysis of Zelaya's politics.

One quick correction:

potentially jeopardizing Obama's promise to close Guantanamo within a year

This has me very depressed. The chasm between democratic primary candidate Obama and President Obama is widening by the day, at least on these issues.

Great work Glenn.

Hi Milton,

Thanks for responding, I don't agree but I think this is an important debate. Let me try to get you to respond to my other two questions, if you don't mind:

We could certainly potentially save the lives of of abortion doctors if we ignore the 4th amendment and preemptively arrest and imprison anti-abortion activists. This would potentially save the lives of doctors and patients. Should we demand that from the DOJ? Which violations of the laws of our land are ok and which are not? Where do we draw that line?

Now, another equal branch, Congress via these two asshole Senators, are trying to suppress through legislation. Let's say they get this bullshit passed, but it is challenged in federal court, goes all the way to the Supreme Court, and they rule that the law is unconstitutional because FOIA already has "national security exceptions" built into it.

Should Obama be compelled to follow the law in that hypothetical?