This is just crazy...

What's next? Retroactive immunity for Wall Street for shaking down so many retirees? Retroactive immunity (as if they need it) for the Enron (and other high flying) leaders?

This country isn't going to shit It's ALREADY THERE!!!

I'm voting republican in this election. At least I know what I'm getting: a back stabbing, vicious, manipulative animal with no regard for anyone but themselves and those that pay them. Add craven and coward to that list and you describe way to many in the 'opposition' party.

What the hell, the pendulum seems damned and determined to swing to the fascist right so hard, lets do it! BRING IT ON!!! I'm tired of having my hopes dashed on the rocks of cowardice. Lets get it over with. Maybe in my lifetime I'll see the next Church Commission forever take the tools for despotism out of the hands of those that treat liberty, justice and freedom with such contempt.

Now, after I got that out of my system... What are the chances that a 'new administration' could undo this? Well, I have to ask... Given that the spooks are already not paying their telephone bills, what makes the telco's think this is a 'great deal'? How interesting if the administration now stops paying for any cooperation now that they 'own' them lock stock and barrel... A Faustian bargain? This could get interesting...

Sent to Harry (genuflect when you say that) Reid:

"I can't believe that you actually back the destruction of the constitution!

Nice going sir!

You aren't a member of an opposition party. You are a sniveling, obsequious simpleton and a traitor to the very country you swore an oath to protect!

Welcome to the fourth Reich where everything that was is no more.

All in the paranoia and fear, everything was lost...

The government should fear the people not the people fearing their government..."

I think now might be an appropriate time to start pushing for the removal of Harry Reid as leader of the Democrats following the next election. He has been manifestly inept at uniting his party on key votes such as this one, and has had little success in responding to the obstructionism of the Republicans.

It's a little too late for that, isn't it?

Removing Harry Reid should have started the very instant that this all started looking like he was going to cooperate.

The internets has made people much less likely to march in their offices and stage sit down strikes and basically get in their faces. If 'we the people' stormed Washington DC and occupied offices of those that concocted this travesty and those that greased the wheels for its passage they would have to deal with the fact that it's not just a bunch of weirdos sending thousands upon thousands of emails and blog posts, it's real weirdos that are afraid of the way that the country is being run into the ground. If 'we the people' stormed Washington DC and let the leaders know that we aren't happy and that it is US that own them rather than the corporations, then maybe we can get things working again.

The internets have been a great savior and a great hindrance.

It's just amazing that with all of the history of bad ideas and abuses of power from 1984 to Brave New World, etc, etc, etc that we would be facing such a crisis in this supposedly 'modern age'.

So are we supposed to now form groups that check up on others to see when they are disappeared? A nice touch. As long as the re-education camps are in a warmer climate it can't be all bad. It's 12 degrees here right now!

Or is our Democrat-controlled Senate a whore-house?

But remember, it's our whorehouse. 'We' elected them...

You also have to blame the brainiacs that usually run the democratic campaigns. They ran Gore's like he was a shoe in for the job. Like only a fool would vote for Bush. Like they had the best candidate in the world.

They ran so ineptly that they couldn't win. They took days, weeks, months to respond to salvos fired by the Bushistas and when they did, somehow turned it into an awkward moment.

They ignored the last sitting president with a positive approval rating and sent Al out to run on his 'record'. A record that was turned inside out and surgically altered and slung from every source that would participate in spreading the lies around while crickets chirped from Gore's campaign.

You can run to win and you can run to lose. They ran to lose.

Look at the '2 Johns' and the expert way their campaign was run into the ground. I felt bitter betrayal when Kerry announced that he was giving up after the awful flawed and illegal way that Bush 'won'. That's the moment for me when we all should have grabbed the guard rails and started hanging on for the ride. Out of the box, Bush started with lies and bullshit. Anyone remember the mysterious 'w' keyboard lies? Anyone notice that Dell computers popped up everywhere? Bush 'had to win'. The republican/libertarians wasted a whole lot to get him there.

I guess what makes this harder now is that I and many others believed the lie that things were going to get better after the 'democrats took back congress'. I guess I'm suffering from 'abused spouse syndrome'. Yes, 12 or so years ago we had good times. It was wonderful. It was a respite from the abuse of the Reagan and Bush I times. It was all just so many sun filled days in the eye of the storm. The beatings have continued. The lies have gotten bolder. Who knows how long this one will last and how many will be casualties of its fury...

We get the government we deserve? We're getting the government that full time Fox News viewers deserve. Couldn't we just ship them somewhere else?