Yeah, and in USSR, those that dared speak out against the tyranical regime that hijacked the nation were called Enemies of the People. The Orwellian vocabulary is now firmly entrenched with our leadership. It's insidious and destructive, and like an oil spill may take decades to clean up, even if anyone tries. Unlike an oil spill, it doesn't make for heartbreaking images of tar-smeared cute birds which can spur the citizenry into if not action, then at least realization that what's happening is BAD.

On the other hand, let me ask you this, Glenn: how much more can we take of this crap until fatigue sets in and we can no longer act? We are assaulted by such a volume of lies that even normal speech becomes hard to handle. Instead of righteous indignation, what I felt upon reading your latest post was weariness. I just want to go home, curl up and let the world collapse. Perhaps that's what the neocons are banking on: even though hardly anyone believes them nowadays, the sheer volume of their crap will make people unwilling to listen to anything at all, reason, madness, sweet nothings.

Kudos to people like you, who have the stomach to read and listen to all this crap and then inform everyone else about the latest Bullshit from the Top.

I can see it now: 15th century Europe, the first issues of the Gutenberg Bible have come out, identically beautiful and reproduced with high fidelity in unprecedented numbers. A scriptorum in a Catholic monastery is abuzz with anxious speculation: what does this all mean? The professional copyists are going to be out of work, centuries of tradition down the john. With books readily available, education becomes more accessible and the power of the literati is diminished. Why, even the unwashed peasants might learn to read, which is... kind of scary. Heck, they might even start reading the Bible by themselves, a blasphemy! What's next? Rumors, heresies previously only whispered, now indiscriminately printed on paper and disseminated to everyone? Now the authority of the King and Pope can be questioned in public... and yet anonymously, and with huge circulation! You can spread heresy to people you haven't even MET yet! Horrible! The world will never be the same.

Five hundred years later, information technology takes another step forward, creating new institutions and making old ones obsolete. You know, this is actually kind of fun, just as it must've been in Gutenberg's day, unless you were a copyist in a medieval scriptorum, a species headed for swift extinction.

Thing is, humanity always does its own thing, and trying to stop it (or heck, legislate against it) is useless and even destructive. Best buckle up and enjoy the ride... and figure out if your trade is going to become obsolete, so that you can learn a new one before it's too late.

Ooh... McClellan says they lied to him. Poor sad chipmunk-boy, so tough to be him. He had no clue, obviously. No inkling. This is McClellan in the corner, that's him in the spotlight, losing his religion.

And let's stop this talk about "will they impeach him now." They will not. McClellan is not making any huge revelations here. We KNOW Rove was involved, we can be certain Cheney was involved because Libby was involved, and whether or not Bush was involved is irrelevant: he isn't the Decider anyway. The members of Congress knew all this, too. They didn't watch this on the Daily Show, they are IN D.C., they witnessed all these events and even took part in them. They will not do a thing to condemn the lies that took us to Iraq (and this is what it's all about) because they're guilty too. If they impeach Bush, and Cheney and whoever else was involved that hasn't retired, if they begin criminal proceedings, this thing will snowball and they will ALL end up in jail. Maybe not, but I bet you money that this is what they fear. Only a handful of them are innocent of this.

I do not know whether our Nation has ever been run by a group of truly honorable people. What I do not that it is decidedly NOT run by honorable people today.

I sincerely hope McClellan's book joins all the other crap written by and about Bush administration officials (e.g. Tenet and Rumsfeld and Rove) in the dark pit of oblivion, where it belongs.