It should be obvious to anyone that this is wrong. What chance do we have as a nation of law when our leaders ignore this and pretend that people that bring it up are the crazy ones?

The “rule of law” has become like the Golden Rule. Those who make the rules can ignore the law. It’s depressing and infuriating. Why can’t we hold government officials to the same standards that any other non-connected citizen is held to?

Maybe Palin could revive the No-Nothing Party. She would be perfect for it.

Apparently, the only way to speak truth on television is to do it under the guise of humor.

I only wish that President Obama would read and heed this.

How come you 2nd Amendment folks always quote the second part of the amendment but conveniently leave out the first?

Because the second part is the independent clause; it is the essence of the sentence, containing as it does a subject, a predicate, and unlike the subordinate, dependent clause that precedes it, it is syntactically capable of standing alone as a self-contained proposition. A dependent clause, on the other hand, functions as a multi-word adjective or adverb that elaborates or embellishes the primary thought expressed in the independent clause; it doesn't serve to NEGATE it.

All right, try parsing this one without its dependent clause:

“Unless my guess is wrong, you are an idiot.”

Enjoy your well-deserved vacation, Glenn. And don’t worry, there will still be plenty of things to be outraged about when you get back.

Really, without a strong public option, where is the reform?

President Obama has apparently already made a side deal with the pharmaceutical companies, guaranteeing that they will continue to have huge profits.

If we can’t at least recognize that the for-profit health insurance companies contribute nothing, but skim money off the top, where are any cost savings going to come from?

That’s what I called him, but invariably just by the initials.

He was a weasel until the end. I feel sure that he knew exactly what he was doing when he outed Valerie Plame, and knew who he was doing it for.

Disappointed doesn’t begin to cover it. Betrayed is the word that come to mind.

I knew he wasn’t the liberal the Right claimed during the campaign. But given the alternatives, he still seemed to be the best, if a more risky choice. The fact that his resumé and personal history were out of the ordinary, the way he seemed to embrace nuanced positions, and his previous history as a Constitutional professor gave me hope that he had the potential to be a great President

I did not expect everything I wanted, but still I hoped, based on his rhetoric, a reversal of the worst abuses of the Bush administration and a new direction. I was severely disappointed with his reversal on FISA; I had donated to his campaign before that point, but not afterward. Speaking of which, weren’t all of those small contributions supposed to free him from being beholden to the corporate interests and beholden to the people instead? Guess it didn’t quite work that way.

And to healinglady2012, remember that the Republican Party was originally a third party. So many members of the Whig Party moved over to it that the Whig Party collapsed into the dust bin of history. Perhaps it is time to start a Progressive or Social-Democratic Party?

that Senator Kennedy didn’t bow to the inevitable and resign from his Senate seat months ago. Massachusetts could have had a replacement senator already in office, had Kennedy been willing to do this one last selfless act.

According to the Post article, “KSM, an accomplished resistor, provided only a few intelligence reports prior to the use of the waterboard...”

But it also says: “But for defenders of waterboarding, the evidence is clear: Mohammed cooperated, and to an extraordinary extent, only when his spirit was broken in the month after his capture March 1, 2003...”

In the first month, he was subjected to 7 1/2 days of sleep deprivation and 183 instances of waterboarding. So when did they even give interrogation without torture a chance? It sounds like they started the torture, excuse me, harsh interrogation techniques, pretty much from the start.

In reading his screed, I was amazed at how immature and whiny Joe Klein sounded. Time actually pays him to write dreck like that?

Klein is embarrassed and humiliated because you are demonstrating what real journalism should be, and the comparison between what you do and what he does lays bare the utter emptiness of his work.

It shows how desperate and morally bankrupt he is that he descended to a Cheneyesque attack on your patriotism.

It’s not enough to get intelligence information; you have to be willing to read and act on it.

On the day that he received a daily intelligence briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, George W. Bush was busy showing off his golf swing to reporters.