EXACTAMUNDO!

Thank you. I so tired of the GOP talking points being accepted as 'the norm' or 'default' or 'correct' position. That is completely disingenuous bullshit.

The GOP is not inherently moral or correct, no matter how loud the echo chamber is.

@ steveinmidtown - I am SO stealing that!

@ pachydermprick - you are right, Edwards should have told everyone to kiss off, and if Faux News and the rest of the M$M really were "fair and balanced", that might have worked. In this age of corporate-owned media, people like Edwards threaten the world order, so must be crushed.

@ CParis1 - spot on. I guess one has to be a rogue mavericky outside-of-the-box thinker to get their own teevee show these days.

@ something stinks - we do need to go after the largess perpetrated by BushCo. This election was Bush's last "accountability moment" before he leaves office.

@ John Anderson and anyone else preaching forgiveness - shorter George Lakoff (although he probably doesn't espouse the level of vitriol I do): "Forgiveness is not an option because 'big C Conservatives' don't think like 'liberals'" ergo we need to be cruel to be kind, ie kick them while they're down. Then kick some more.

Or are they too busy monitoring liberals to notice the Jonah Goldbergs of this world?

The long campaign and three debates allowed the general population to see that he was not a scary [insert unpolite euphemism here]. Maybe it would have been to Obama's advantage to accept McCain's 10-stop townhall tour?

What's scary is that it took a 100-year flood of financial crises to focus people's attention on something more important that an 8-year-old's actions forty years ago.

We must now stop the recount. It is important that we quickly resolve this issue, lest the voter lose faith in the system and our fragile ... oh wait, you mean a DEMocrat is in the lead? Yikes, send our lawyer brigade "ensure the integrity" wink wink of the system ... oh, they're in Minnesota? Then unleash the hoarde of GOP Youth ensure the integrity of the system ... oh, it's too cold for their delicate sensibilities?

Sorry Ted, you're SOL.

The first poster may have been vague but was not incorrect.

AND

The Founders were most cetainly not thinking of the President as an elected monarch.

No matter how many catalogs I throw away, Obama is still President-elect. Maybe I'm not praying hard enough?

However, any faith that Shrub will "do the right thing" will only lead to disappointment.

We all know he's going to do it (cf Scooter). Shrub is a shitbag, he can't help himself. But just because he's helpless shitbag, doesn't mean he shouldn't be held accountable. Too bad impeachment is "off the table", not addressing this now will only make it worse later. Payback is a bitch when procrastinating on moral issues.

.. if he were declared an enemy combatant and detained without charges at Gitmo?

Just askin'

Never heard of him, and I'm pretty plugged into the liberal scene.

Shrub and Cheney will have a touching moment at some undisclosed location on Jan 19, where Shrub will pardon en-masse his entire administration then resign. President Cheney will pardon Shrub then announce he has 8 years of absolute authority with his appointment as chief of the unitary executive.

NOT!

Who's running the company, the guy welding a bumper onto the latest manhood compensator, or the guy that decides which cars get built and which one's dont. Always the the unions and workers get the blame, never the managers, never the CEOs.

Why is that?

Would you have said the same thing about the Nazis in 1945-6?

Lessee, post-Oval Office, Carter builds homes for the poor, Clinton mobilizes global forces for the good of the planet's citizen, Gore tries (at minimum) to stop the planet from turning into Venus.

On the other hand, Nixon whines about how good his foreign policy was, Reagan collects his percentage from Japanese automakers, Poppy Bush gropes women and cries about how Jebbie won't be Prez? And Shrub? We'll see but I'm not expecting much.

elephantspooge, try to acomplish something in your pathetic life before knocking someone with the stature of Clinton.

But let's have a reality check, with the current Congressional leadership, it's not like having a 'filibuster proof' majority would do them - or us - any good. The Dems were probably 'holding their' proverbial 'fire' from this contest to give themselves plausible deniability for the inevitable upcoming disappointments.

No hat tip?

NPR interviewed him just a few days before the invasion. From what I remember of the interview, Conyers got every concession from Saddam that Bush had demanded and yet the White House wouldn't even "grant an audience". Some low level flunky told Conyers to save it, i.e. the invasion was a done deal.

The trouble with tracking Bush over the years is the layer upon layer of grade A premium bullshit, the best your tax dollars can buy. Lies within lies, lies covering lies, lies about the lies. My guess is this current load of manure is a calculated gambit at avoiding any consequences of his criminal behavior once he's no longer C-in-C.

That douchebag needs to be put on trial, not for his sake, but for ours. While his soul is long gone, we might be able to salvage ours.

corrected:

John McCain, who melodramatically "suspended" his presidential campaign so he could try to save the financial bailout in September....

As for Shrub, he wouldn't miss an opportunity to fellate his big money butt-buddies with a little union busting x-mas gift.

But hey, income inequality makes the rich feel richer, and that's what's important.

And the Big O? Based on his coronation transition machinations, the UAW shouldn't count on too much help.

a-fukkin-men!