In this order:

Those who wanted it to happen.

Those who did it.

Those who covered the asses of those who did it.

Those who wrote about why it was ok to do it.

All the rest of us.

My order may not be right.

The title says it all.

Thanks Glenn. You've effectively exposed Klein as the childish monster he is. Wish he had enough of a sense of decency to quit the profession, move to India, climb to the top of a mountain and ask a wise man about the meaning of journalism.

Death, Taxes, and Shatner

If only we could harness the power of the comments sections of Glenn's stories: if we could hook up the kinetic energy as fingers type, we could power a city; if we could harness the rage at the arrogant preening boobs like Williams (the worst of the bunch in my opinion) into cash payments to Glenn, he could build a whole new industry for online journalism.

We have political parties with opposing views. Not dissimilar, not slightly different, but truly opposite. It makes no more sense for Democrats to compromise on healthcare with Republicans than for nonsmokers to try to compromise with smokers and have everyone smoke "a little bit."

I read every word of the transcript and am also sickened and shamed that Chuck Todd is allowed to call himself a journalist. What a scumbag. Your questions: clear and commonsensical. His responses: rationalizing evil. Good God what is this country coming to when such a sycophantic toady to the administration is considered to in any way be a valid voice in this conversation. PROSECUTE THEM ALL.

Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Erichael Holdcasey

No sympathy. I consider Republicans to be traitors.

Let's go to D.C. There simply is no other way. We need to be in their faces about this.

I've been enraged since the Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount in 2000. NOW I'M MAD ALL THE TIME AT EVERYONE. Let's revive the guillotine, it's "let them eat cake" time.

Correction: the strip started in 39.

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I have long worried that the Bush gang, knowing they are likely to lose in November, and further knowing that criminal prosecutions are likely in the future, would create some kind of crisis which would enable them to take power and end democracy in America. I thought they would maybe fake an attack on a polling place and use it to shut down the vote, but this is infinitely more clever if this is that crisis. An unaccountable budget? Ye gods. Is this it? The power grab that ends us? Is it time to take to the streets?

Obama, like the whole rest of the Democratic party, ignores the will of Democratic voters. I will not vote for him because he supported the awful telcom immunity bill. The Democratic party needs to be purged of him and all the other sellouts. i have never been so enraged by poltics in my life. I expect the Republicans to be evil, so their shenanigans don't bother me as much.

Is it overloaded?

I read your story with great interest. I then went to ABCNews.com and found a story called "Suspected Anthrax Scientist Kills Himself" and posted a link to your story with a comment that you had critized them as having hyped the nonexistent Iraq/anthrax link and asked them did they have a response. I used plain english and was not hostile in my tone. The comment went up this morning but has now (1 pm ET) been removed, along with another post I saw which referenced this story. ABC = A (B)unch of (C)owards.

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I'm donating. Excellent analysis.

I've nothing else to add.

Liberty, or death. I don't give a crap for those who defend Obama. He abdicated, he whiffed, he pussed-out, whatever you want to call it. He showed a lack of sincerity, which I cannot forgive. I say this to the many defenders of Obama - FU - you are supporting someone who does not support the simple principle of - liberty, or death. So what are you in fact, supporting. We had it better when the Dems were in the minority and at least tried to fight the Repugs. Do you not realize that it is worse with the Dems in power - amazing as it is for me to say this, but I believe it - do you NOT REALIZE THE ABSOLUTE BETRAYAL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF ITS OWN CONSTITUENTS AND PRINCIPLES. I wonder if we are headed to a new revolution. Let's use that word - revolution - more.

Obama proved to me today that he is nothing out of the ordinary. A complete hack, already corrupted by beltway politics, willing to compromise any principle to win. Although I am a Democrat and despise the Republicans with a loathing I normally reserve for seal-clubbers and vampires, Obama has, by supporting this anti-American-values, awful bill, lost my vote.

No, I'm not voting for the old man either. I don't know what I'll do. But it's unconscionable to me to contemplate voting for someone who supported this clearly awful bill - the worst in my lifetime.

Of all the "hold your nose and vote" -type incidents I've had in my lifetime, this is the most challenging to me. I may not vote for Obama.