It's about time to say "Fuck, yeah" to that and be proud of it.

Back in the day, as William Ayers is probably old enough to say, there was a woman named Angela Davis who was an avowed communist and said that the United States could not give her a fair trial. She was acquitted of the charges against her, and her movement is in the dustbin of history, while the institutions she insulted were, until the day the Present Occupant and his band of thieves started trying the scare tactics that Elephantman and others seem to like so much, the wonder of the world.

Obama nailed it today when he talked about the opportunity W. squandered after 9/11 to take care of his Oedipal need to do what daddy couldn't do to Saddam Hussein. We had every opportunity to lead this world in good directions. Instead, we have men dying in Iraq, and Vladimir Putin sends his fleet to the Caribbean for joint maneuvers with Venezuela and nothing is done about it, from Gitmo or anywhere else. And two trillion dollars disappeared from people's pensions and retirement savings last week.

If you have moral power, it can last forever. Just ask the people who kept the freedom fires burning in the Baltics for 50 years. If you all you have is military power, some day it may not be there. Just ask the Prussian military class how they've enjoyed the last 60 years. Letting one administration drain us of over 200 years of moral power and dissipate our military strength followed by our economic strength is a pretty bad price to pay for one man's need to do something better than his daddy.

"Country First" is the last refuge of the scoundrel that this entire campaign has become. It really means "I'm the only patriot in the race, because I'm the only one of the same race as 'you'."

There is a second part of the report that no one but the Legislative Council has seen, the part that deals with Wooten's personnel records. We don't know what's in there, but it likely deals with the misuse of his records, particularly in the call to Trooper Dial.

Even if Monegan had never been fired, the abuse of power is breathtaking. At one point, the Deputy Commissioner is at his wife's side where she's having major back surgery in Tennessee, and he's called by Palin's chief of staff, who wants him immediately to deal with the terrible fact that Wooten has drive his kids to school in his patrol car. How the guy just didn't tell him where to stuff it is beyond me.

Then there's lovely Sarah asking why Wooten can't be prosecuted for killing the cow moose using his wife's (her sister's) permit and Monegan explains that they'd have to prosecute everyone involved, which means her sister (for letting him shoot the gun when she apparently decided that she couldn't do it) and her father (for helping butcher the animal). No, no, says Sarah, we're just interested in having Wooten prosecuted. Sorry Gov, says Monegan, no can do.

Finally, there's the simple fact that these folks don't seem to have had a learning curve, let alone any shame. Monegan makes it abundantly clear in January 2007 that there is absolutely nothing he can do to alter discipline that has been fully disposed under the prior administration and in accordance with a union contract. He tells this to Todd. He tells it to Sarah. He tells it to Sarah again. And yet, over a year later, they're still trying end arounds, still using different members of the administration to ask, once again, if there is something that can be done about the same facts he had properly told them he was powerless to alter, even using the Attorney General of Alaska, who presumably knows better but likes his job even more, to ask the same futile question. And then they make it clear to Monegan's chosen successor (the one with the skeleton in the closet they neglected to ask him about, so he never really took office) that, completely contrary to Palin's specific statement way back weeks before McCain had picked her, in fact Monegan's attitude about the Wooten thing was a factor in why they got rid of him (and Branchflower has a nice little section at the back of the report showing how the "new direction" for the department that she announced after she fired Monegan included exactly nothing he had had not either already implemented in full or was in the process of implementing).