This long-suspected and now apparently confirmed complicity by the top Dems in the illegal acts of the Bush administration clearly explains Nancy Pelosi's startling statement, when asked why she had taken impeachment off the table, that "if anyone could show that Bush had committed any crimes" it would be a different matter. Either butter wouldn't melt in Little Missy's mouth so proficient a liar is she, or she is so much in clueless denial that she does not see the illegal programs she complied with as being illegal.

I'm guessing she can't be so stupidly oblivious, and wishes merely not to be prosecuted along with the President.

It has not been proven that Bush won over Gore in 2000. There were several recount scenarious enacted, each using different criteria for tabulating votes. In some, Bush would have won; in others Gore was the victor. Ironically, if the recount had been conducted in only those few counties that Gore had requested be recounted, Bush would have won.

The Bush team's frantic efforts to halt the recount, even to the point of having the Supreme Court of the United States intervene, contrary to the Constitution and all precedent, shows how badly they feared Bush would have been toast if all the votes in the state were recounted.

However, the focus in such discussions as this is only the votes that were cast; with so few votes favoring either Bush or Gore in the various recounts, one can say that the real outcome is still indeterminate. More significant are the tens of thousands of voters who were prevented from even casting votes, as they were purged from the voting rolls prior to the election due to having names that were the same as or even merely similar to the names of convicted felons. After the fact, the state of Florida even admitted that the vast majority of those purged were not felons and had been removed from the rolls in error. Well, I'd say "error" is too kind. The majority of the purged voters resided in largely black areas of the state, and would therefore have presumably been more likely to vote for Gore than Bush.

I refer you to Greg Palast's THE BEST DEMOCRACY THAT MONEY CAN BUY for more on the 2000 vote fraud in Florida.

I had hoped Obama would surprise us, but it appears not. I had been waffling about voting for him, but his betrayal of principles in voting for the revised FISA law decided the matter for me: I did not vote for Obama. I stood in line for an hour in order to vote for a candidate I knew would not win: Ralph Nader.

I have had enough of voting for the "lesser of two evils." As Marcel Duchamp said of bad art, (i.e., "bad art is still art just as a bad emotion is still emotion"), the lesser of two evils is still evil.

Obama is a mediocrity and although he is obviously preferable to George Bush/Dick Cheney, we can see he will be, if perhaps less overtly barbarous or lawless than the swine he's replacing, a diligent tool of empire.

Perhaps Obama will still surprise us in the small good things he may do, but they will be small and incidental to the great good things that demand to be done. Thus are we undone.

Forever after, Joe the Plumber should be known as Joe the Halfwit.

Friedman is a loathesome toad, as psychopathically indifferent to (or happy about) the violence we visit on other people around the world as he is stone cold stupid. And, as is often true of stupid and brutal people, he is smug in his own imagined intellectual and moral superiority.

Had he not married a wealthy heiress, he would probably be selling shoes in Thom McAn or assistant managing a Sonic Burger.

What does Kagan mean by his term "the green eye-shade boys?" Is this a reference to the anachronistic green eyeshades worn by...well, by whom? Or is it a reference to men who wear eye makeup? Does Kagan suggest that only limp-wristed sissies wish for restraints in defense spending?

I'm so glad I didn't give my vote to this conniving hack...I waited for an hour to cast my vote for the only candidate I could honestly support, though I knew he had no chance of winning: Ralph Nader. I'm done with voting for the "lesser of two evils." As Marcel Duchamp said of bad art: "Bad art is still art the way a bad emotion is still emotion." The "lesser of two evils" is still evil.

Tonight in his news conference, Obama was asked point blank whether he would support a bill to convene a truth commission, and whether he would disavow any intention to prosecute any Bush administration actors for commission of crimes. Obama gave a weasel answer that I interpret to mean he does NOT plan to pursue prosecution for war crimes of any members of the Bush administration.

Obama didn't wait long to join Bush, Cheney, et al as an accomplice to war crimes.