Jonathan:

It isn't just a matter of whether or not someone has something to hide or has skeletons. I don't want to be spied on. Even if I'm just mowing the lawn or taking a run or making love or washing the dishes. I don't want to be spied on. I don't want the FBI listening in on the conversations I have with my beloved mother or my best friend or my neighborhood dog catcher. I don't want to be spied on.

Nab:

If you don't give a damn if someone is watching you take a shit or watching you through spy glasses picking your nose, well, that's up to you. But don't tell me and the rest of America to be as stupid and as ignorant as you. Don't try and tell me and the rest of America that we and I shouldn't give a damn if the government owns our personal lives.

You're an idiot, Nab. That's obvious. Don't expect the rest of us to be idiots just because you're too stupid to care about your own personal privacy.

The point isn't can they listen in. The point is that it's illegal to listen in. I don't see how it is that you can't understand the difference.

"The dictionary: it's an amazing thing."

If you look up perjury or obstruction of justice in "the dictionary" it sure as hell won't define what you're pretending that it defines regarding Clinton and the travel office. It just doesn't. Period. No perjury. No obstruciton. Not even an indictiment. When did you stop beating your wife?

Shameful that a disingenuous hogwasher like you is using Pullo's name.

Titus Pullo was a famous centurion in Rome. The poster stealing his name as his own for use as a screen name is refering to the current original series on HBO called ROME. Great show, and an extremely iteresting character. As I said earlier, too bad such a hogwash spewing poster is using and abusing Pullo's name.

The current hearings have no more legitimacy than those acknowledged shams and should be treated similarly.

-- nabalzbbfr

Nab,

Why do you want to live under a dictatorship? Why do you hate America? What are you so scared of?

Nab, you've made it abundantly clear that your ignorance knows no bounds, but please, don't insult the entire Hispanic community by telling us 'whitefolk' that we'd best stand by anyone with an Hispanic name, no matter what, or the Hispanics will vote in lockstep against the "offending" party.

Reading your posts is a very strange experience. I can't imagine how one could be so foolish as you insist on showing yourself to be.

"Please ban this shitbag"

-Kovie

My sentiments exactly. The Nabfool is so repugnant that it can't even type Democratic. It chooses to use the ignorant pejoritive "democrat".

I also think Kovie is on to something with his post about Rove and the 'talking points' being fed to, and put out by, the so called reporters. They can't all be that damned stupid, I hope, so the next logical conclusion is that they are bought.

You used to comment regularly on the political impact of ongoing events in Washington, and particularly on the legal and constitutional ramifications thereof. Since your move to Salon your posts are more often than not merely a lengthy diatribe about how awful the media is.

How awful the media is, has a great deal of "political impact [on] ongoing events in Washington". Don't you agree?

Another example of beltway media either giving short shrift to a subject or giving it constant derision was the Lancet Study. Today the British have finally decided to recognize the studies voracity. They are, after all this time later, saying that Lancet Study had it right.

By Jill Lawless

Published: 27 March 2007

British government officials have backed the methods used by scientists who concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion, the BBC reported yesterday.

-snip-

The conclusion, based on interviews and not a body count, was disputed by some experts, and rejected by the US and British governments. But the chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence, Roy Anderson, described the methods used in the study as "robust" and "close to best practice". Another official said it was "a tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict zones".

here

Couldn't get that tag to work. Here is the link:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2396031.ece

Joan, please don't try to defend or in any way softpeddle the indefensable. It won't wash. Politico, predictably, bald-faced blew it. They'll be gone soon or they'll join the ranks of 'Powerline' as BSblogging, because that's how foolish and disingenuous their "reporting" comes across. Total crap.

I mean, everything you wrote in your piece seemed more than obvious to me but, hey, it needed saying, apparently, so, thanks.

Finally, let me vent flame upon John Byrne at Rawstory. For his headline "Democratic Committee requests deposition from Secretary of State".

Democratic Committee? Really? Political parties now have oversight powers? Can anyone envision how such headlines might give the public the impression that this is all just insignificant political nitpicking?

Excellent point. I scanned most of the comments on that thread and didn't see a single other person besides you who pointed that out. It's very important that the bought and sold incorrect framing of oversight committees being Democratic Party committees be corrected.

"Let's poll the Democrat candidates as well"

There aren't any "democrat candidates". There are some Democratic candidates though. Let's, please, respectfully pronounce and spell the name of their party correctly. I think that's the very least that we can do.

I am not "awaiting further developments" but then I am not delusional either.

-- adnoto

I read lokannan's post to have been specifically adressing the upcoming vote after the expected veto. Not as a 'Democrats will save us' "delusional" take as you indicated that you took it as.