Yes. That is the question that we well know the answer to.

Mr Bush, Mr Cheney, Mr Rove, Mr Powell, Mr Petraeus, Ms. Rice, Poppy and Mrs. Bush ad all of the other, and many, ministers in the Bushist junta: Have you no shame? Have you no scruples? Have you no larger a love of this country than for the currency you extract and the clenched fist power that you exert?

Nope. Not even a sleepless night. Their 'pretty minds' don't want to be 'troubled with such silly thoughts' as treason and criminality for what they have and are doing for if you own the 'religious' and own the judges you really do get to write and interpret your own rules...

It is great to be a dictator...

Most, if not all of those Intel chips are made in Malaysia. All of the hard drives are made in China or elsewhere. All of the display screens are made in places other than America. All of the RAM modules are made in places other than America.

'America' is now a 'user nation'. We now depend on many other nations for most of our day-to-day items that we come in contact with. iPods: China. Notebook computers: China. Cell phones: China, Korea, Japan? Item after item, 'Not Made In America'. Nearly ALL nails are made in China! Nuts, bolts, washers: Made in China.

American corporations have given up any idea that being number one at manufacturing as a goal is important and instead concentrate on gaming their stock price.

It's interesting to note that product after product has had their manufacturing 'off shored' to cheaper places to manufacture those good and the prices charged for those goods has largely stayed the same. You want to know where the 'Bush Economy™' is? Look at the gap between the high prices charged for under manufactured and under quality controlled crap and the cost of manufacturing that crap is. THERE is your 'Bushist recovery'.

Hidden in that is yet another bubble. Either consumers are going to wise up and stop buying that junk or the cost of manufacturing that crap in some swamp in China is going to go up because the people slaving away 12 hours a day, 7 days a week organize and demand better pay and ways of life.

Today's America is crueler and meaner than any other society in the history of earth. We, the consumers of America and the government entities that provide cover for the shifting of jobs out of our borders are creating a new generation of economic slaves. No wonder the opinion of the rest of the world towards George W. Bush's America has gotten so bad. 'Mission Accomplished' indeed.

There are people here in America that would kill, and are dying, for work. The hatred of organized labor and the middle class has created a disgusting chasm between the rich and poor.

Now 'tax cuts' are racist codewords for bankrupting social programs. Only the rich benefit in the long run from them. A corporation throws workers to the streets and their stock JUMPS! What interesting times we live in.

America has a near terminal case of cancer that is killing it from the inside. Runaway capitalism is just a symptom...

It's time that Feinstein be sent out to pasture...

This election is shaping up to be a choice between catastrophic and apocalyptic.

Both 'parties' have a distorted and jaundiced world view that scares the hell out of me.

Ron Paul as president WILL BE dramatically worse and more destructive than Bush/Cheney, and they have been markedly malignant.

Looking at the Paul campaign as if it were a curious, but deadly species of lethal bug under the foot, about to be squashed, totally ignores the very possibility that that insect could actually dart from under the shoe and sprint to the winner's podium. (According to the media, America 're-selected' Bush/Cheney in 2004)

Paul isn't a fresh new candidate, he's a symptom of the perversity and derangement of the American political theatre and the America that I once knew.

The very idea that he is running and getting ANY support frightens me.

Ron Paul's campaign should be a sideshow, not a main attraction. Is he, perhaps, the true Hitler-esque political tool that will follow the destructive Bush years.

I guess that depends on the corporations...

You can't rule out just plain old garden variety stupidity.

You would almost expect such callowness from a green member of congress. Someone who hasn't seen the inner workings of the machine and seen the 'sausage' that is produced.

To not stand up, being a member of the 'opposition' party, is absurd and there probably has never been a more pronounced action of complete abdication of responsibility and in the face of what has been happening to America, an action of total craven stupidity.

Yes, Bush might get his way, but the opposition parties tactic of giving in denies Bush the limelight for taking the back roads to get his way. Push him into recess appointing his treacherous heathens, force him to decree via presidential directives and other tools to avoid the 'will of the people'. Force Bush to take the back roads and then call him on it. Focus on it. Oh, but that would require forethought, planning and actually taking a stand on a principal. A thought that is totally missing from today's opposition parties 'leaders'.

Schummer and Feinstein are craven cowards. They don't deserve to be in government. Their shelf life has long expired.

Anyone else smell smoke?