Yes, the Constitution IS optional. What are you going to do about it? Elect more Blue Dogs like last time? Well, that sounds like a plan, doesn't it? Go right ahead. Yes, the Rule of Law DOES apply only to the Little People, and then only to some of them based on race and gender. What are you going to do about it? Elect more pseudo-Progressives and Blue Dogs? Go right ahead. They're begging you to.

Yes, the Presidency has been turned into a competitve monarchy, and yes it can operate very effectively as an Autocracy. What are you going to do about it? Call and fax and write stern letters? Elect more Blue Dogs? Please! By all means! Have at it!

They see their job as protecting and defending The Government, not the Constitution. And they think they're doing a pretty good job. Too bad radical extremists don't appreciate the job they're doing.

Your job, in fact the job of all ordinary Americans, is to keep on consuming the economic, political, and social products they believe you deserve. -- Ché Pasa

Fuckin'a right on. What are they going to do about it? Just what they have been doing -- nothing of consequence. It's maddening isn't?

Laws with no consequences are meaningless. They're just suggestions. And nothing ensures future lawbreaking more then announcing that the response to government lawbreaking will be to protect the lawbreakers and then legalize what they did. That's why this new law does the opposite of what its apologists claim -- it incentivizes future lawbreaking by making clear that nothing will happen to political officials who break the law.

-- GlennGreenwald

And yet you won't touch impeachment with a ten foot pole. You won't write about it. You won't use your new coalition and money to somehow support it. You ignore Kucinich and people like Sheehan.

It's all about what's possible correct? And what is possible is electing a few more dems and Obama so that they can what? Police themselves? I don't know about anybody else but, given recent history, that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.

shooter242

Anything I want to keep secret, can easily be kept secret. I'm certainly not going to assume any cross border communication is privileged, nor would anyone else with a grain of situational awareness.

So how about just those, then -- international calls and "cross-border" emails of yours -- will you record those and forward them all to me? -- GlennGreenwald

It isn't his job to give them to you. You have to take them, without his knowledge, like any competent Big Brother whose only concern is looking after Shitter's safety. However, since Shatpants is so trusting, I am sure he would have no problem with you tapping his phone and intercepting his emails as long as you promise to only listen to and read the ones that are headed "cross border."

In that case, therefore, isn't anyone's failure to strenuously advocate for outright revolution, destruction of the Democratic and Republican parties, and other total systemic upheavals equivalent to Glenn's unforgivable sin of failing to advocate impeachment? -- DCLaw1

You went a bit over the top in an effort to marginalize (as you "serious" people often do) but, yeah, you are catching on. It wouldn't take outright revolution with blood in the streets. It wouldn't take the "destruction" of the two parties, though it would be fine if that happened. But, yes, failing to advocate those things that actually would deter further abuses, lawbreaking and cover-ups and instead choosing to legitimize and further enable the corrupt, abusing, lawless establishment, is not only a sin but also idiocy in the extreme.

You asked about logic? Boy howdy that is rich. Why don't you tell us all again the logic in "working within the system" to elect more netroots darlings like Webb, Whitehouse and Obama? Let me guess you are going to claim that this time it will be different? This time we will elect truly responsive democrats who care, correct? We will buy a few ads and really bring the others to heel, right? Lay it all out for us "logically." Maybe you can use recent history as a guide to prove your points. Give us all the run down again won't you please?

Would that one day I too might spend my days wishing for a magic pony. -- DCLaw1

You already are. You and those like you are only fooling yourselves.

@adnoto

Are you trying to tell us you can hit a moving motorcade several times from a book-depository window? I love target shooting (bottles even better) but my eyesight ain't so good no more, so I'll gues I'll just have to vote and send money, or walk around with a sign. You could always stick a rag in an aquavit bottle full of gas. I bet that's your favorite cocktail!

Viva La Revolucion

It took a while to get ourselves into this, it'll be a while before we get out, if ever. Isn't that awful?-- Derbig Mooser

More hyperbole from another comfortable coward who is not interested in real change.

Everyone take note how they use the extreme in an effort to marginalize those advocating the peaceful and historically proven direct action tactics of mass demonstration, sit-ins, boycotts, marches, etc. Notice how they raise the specter of assassination and murderous DFH's carrying Molotov cocktails. Notice how they beg for more time to implement their already failed strategy simply because they are unwilling to suffer one moment of discomfort in order to bring about change.

Stay comfortable everyone. That is all that matters.