Yet another lame reason why we shouldn't impeach. It's divisive. It'd destroy confidence in the markets. Etc. etc. And now: Obama doesn't want it.

Well, if Obama doesn't want it, that is neither here nor there. We have 3 separate branches of government for a reason. If impeachment is always off the table for the lame reasons given above, then the geniuses in the executive branch start getting the idea that anything goes. They can do anything with impunity. This is the death of accountability, and will lead to more lawbreaking, the results of which will demand some future administration's full attention, leading to more calls of no impeachment. Cause it would be distracting. And the cycle goes on.

Frankly, if Congress spent all it's little time remaining on impeachment rather than collaborating with the unprecedented, massive looting of the Treasury by the moneyed classes, that would be fine by me. For there is no evidence whatever that all the shoveling of money to the fat financial elites is doing anything but getting them even bigger bonuses.

Granted, it's a little late in the game. Congress should have impeached years ago. But "Obama doesn't want it" not a good reason to oppose it.

This stuff happens all the time.

You're worried about scolding your kid for spilling milk while the house is on fire. Get your damn priorities straight.

Dude. The house is on fire because an arsonist set it on fire. Are you proposing that we not prosecute the arsonist? Cause if you don't, more houses will go up in flames. And really, are you saying that the Bush crimes are the equivalent of spilling milk? He is the arsonist!

And another thing you don't seem to get: This stuff shouldn't happen all the time. It does because people like you don't demand accountability. My "damn" priorities are straight, thank you.

...was how I was reminded about the folks declaring their gratitude that Geo. W. Bush was president in the troubled times right after 9/11. We all know how that turned out.

Let's see what Obama does before we start the personality cult, shall we?

And let's not succumb to the temptation of immediately making this a good vs. evil test. What has happened in Mumbai is terrible and wrong. But eradicating world terrorism will require a response that is more sophisticated than the mindless application of force. It will require the eradicating terrible injustices across the world, especially in a complex place like India, where globalization has treated some very very well, while simultaneously destroying the lives of so many others.

Tariq Ali has been a good source for readers how wish to understand what may be going on in India and Pakistan. His initial take on the Mumbai terrorist assaults can be found at CounterPunch.org and is well worth reading.

Venezuela has been the canonical example of the US media's Orwellian penchant. I have never read anything intelligent about Venezuela in any US mainstream media. The few snippets of thoughtful reporting in this country on Venezuela have been on fringe media like ZMag, and sometimes The Nation (though not always). How can we see clearly when we so willfully blind ourselves? What makes Venezuela even more fascinating and instructive is that prior to Chavez it had what we define as "democracy": A two-party system with both parties agreeing more with each-other and the ruling and commercial elites than with the general populace. Sound familiar?

NO THEY DID NOT. As Tim3 points out we were not attacked by the Afghan government which as been the left's dividing line here for years. Even if you argue they hid OBL that doesn't pass muster as a "cassus belli".

As usual the left finds itself pursuing actions for which they loudly denounce others. Tsk. Tsk.

Just as it is wrong to blame and entire people for the attack carried out by 19 Saudi terrorists, it is wrong to blame "The Left" for supporting a war that many of us vehemently opposed.

Shooter, many on the Left (what you would call the fringe leftist lunatics) believe that we have no moral right to start wars in foreign lands; that we ought to slash the military budget and use that money to look after our own people (as in universal single-payer health care, for example). Unfortunately "The Left" hasn't had a real voice in this country's politics since the '30s.

But then, perhaps you are confusing establishment Democrats with The Left? Because, as you see with Obama, establishment Democrats are hardly your rabid left-wingers, being instead centrists who do not challenge the basic premise that we have the right to "project force" wherever required.

who better than Amy Goodman? She's done more than most journalists, men or women.