Wouldn't really help much - in general (and this is a generalization, not true in all aspects) people who oppose the war don't pay much in the way of taxes. The vast bulk of taxes are paid by high income people who are heavily Republican. Clearly, there are high-income people who oppose the war and vote Democratic (i.e. Soros), but, in general, our gov't is funded by Republicans.

-- cestmoi123

WTF!? Where do you come up with this horse manure? Our government is funded by Republicans? I thought the Dems were all high-income latte sippers driving BMWs? Maybe the Dems are so smart that they figured out how to avoid taxes -- those BMWs are a big write-off, huh?

And to say that just when I'm writing out a whopping big check to the IRS really corks it. Specially when I think that my check is going to get sent right over to Iraq to either kill someone or to line some contractor's pockets, it really p.o.'s me.

I have officially had enough of Bush and his followers. That's it. Not gonna take anymore.

Yes, thanks to all who perservered. An e-mail thanking Chris Dodd again might not be amiss, either, since he was really the lightning rod around which the pushback coalesced. Had he not excited and encouraged everyone by his strong stand, the whole thing would have been over long ago.

But I don't trust these psychos. They are willing to do almost anything -- short of putting themselves in physical danger, of course -- to achieve their ends. They appear to be ramping things up for a "strike" against Iranian "training camps", if Pat Buchanan is right. Maybe they figure once the bombs rain down on Iran, the public will be willing to give up on telecom immunity, or too distracted by the $6/gal gas to notice.

...but the new meme -- the Democrats caused the recession! -- is just too much crappola. And then Randi Rhodes, as tho that has anything to do with anything.

Do you have an honest bone in your body, shoots? Just one? Anywhere?

Did Leahy follow up on the "oops, I meant another country" statement? Like "which other country" and "why was a warrant necessary" and then "if so, why wasn't a warrant applied for 72-hours after". Or did Leahy just let the ball drop? Where are our Sam Ervins, Peter Rodinos, Howard Bakers? The Bush Junta makes Nixon look like pikers, and the current Congress looks like a bunch of dead fish.

Yoo is tempting because he is small and exposed enough that he is perhaps vulnerable (someone used the weak pack animal metaphor upthread). While I wholeheartedly agree that Yoo should not be the scapegoat that allows the rest of the criminals to go free, as happened at Abu Graib, nevertheless he could be the first juicy appetizer that stimulates the system to go after the entree. Have I mixed enough metaphors here?

What I'm trying to say, badly, is that enough anger and information could be generated while going after Yoo, that it becomes easier, both logistically and politically, to go after the real spearheads.

extreme left/anti-Bush blog fringe

Apparently 70-72% of the country is in the "anti-Bush blog fringe", since his approval rating is somewhere between 28-30%.

This is just garden variety lying. Nobody disputes the idea of progressive taxation, it's just a matter of how much gets taken. Let me make the point yet again... who is greedier, the person who wants to keep more of their earnings, or the person who covets those earnings for themselves?

-- shooter242

Shooter, you've gotten all in a huff about taxation and how it's theft. As a sometime libertarian, I won't disagree with you on principal. But tell me, you seem to object to the government taking money from you to go to "welfare queens", et al. I object to the government taking my money to blow up people I don't perceive as threats. Why is your objection more valid than mine?

If anyone doubted Glenn's thesis that our media is in dire straights, then last night's "debate" surely cleared that up. 45 minutes of questions about consorting with 60s radicals, lapel pins, whether one's preacher is patriotic, and on and on. It was one of the most nauseating -- and depressing -- displays I've seen in my life. And this from "respectable" ABC and "respectable" Charlie Gibson (who even had on his intellectual reading glasses so he looked all serious and stuff).

The fact that Charlie Gibson was so concerned about the capital gains tax and whether Obama/Hillary would add taxes to those "middle class" folks earning $200,000 says it all.

Most of the media people make so much money, they literally have no idea how most people live, or think. They all sound like my broker friend who is upset because he may have to get second hand ski equipment for his 8-year-old daughter when they go to Aspen this year because of the cut in his bonus. I kid you not.

So, the media guys are so disconnected in the first place, and then they are working for huge corporations, where challenging the status quo is often a death knell. Some of the corporations may be actively right wing, but even the ones who aren't -- well, have you ever seen a truly "liberal" large corporation. Not gonna happen.

Gibson and his peers probably have no idea that they are disconnected, because everyone they know is just like them. And as far as they are concerned, isn't the rest of the U.S.?

Rove in CNN report

Anyone else hear Rove is to be called before Congress to testify in US attorney probe? Heard this morning on CNN but could not find it on any MSM sites...including CNN.

-- Northwestwoods

TPM has a story up about it -- Rove is backtracking now on agreeing to testify. Surprahz, surprahz.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/04/house_committee_asks_rove_to_t_1.php