Ok, consider me educated. Read the other responses, and checked out Glenn's recap during the break, and I rescind my previous remark about Specter. In actual fact, I do not even recall, in fact, even making such a remark about Specter. I recall that someone may have suggested that Specter was not a toady, but in fact, I do not recall exactly when that remark was made, or who, in fact, made it.

Go Chuck!!

Jim-

I thought like you that CNN wasn't running it, but discovered that CNN took it off main CNN in the Washington DC market at 10 a.m. and switched it to CNN3. It may be buried somewhere in your cable lineup like it is ours, but it is running on CNN3.

Sorry! I must be drunk with power...

What's the point?

The cronies are cockroaches that can't be killed, and even if you do manage to get rid of a few, there's an infestation in your walls that ensures a steady supply of new ones.

Haliburton, and SAIC, and Blackwater, and Carlyle Group, and John Doolittle and wife, Wolfie and his neoncon girlfriend, Gonzalez, and everyone who is "friends" with the dark forces known as Cheney and Rove, become richer, more powerful, and more immune to repercussions, prosecution, or consquences.

America has become a shadow world of cronies, nepotism, and people that operate outside the government. Basically, we are no different than any banana republic or military dictatorship.

I never thought that in my lifetime, America would lose -- irrevocably, it seems likely -- what made us special.

Now, we have elections whose results are questionable. How much longer before they send in Election Monitors from other countries to try to ensure a minimum of election fraud in U.S. elections?

We have Machiavellian, dictatorial politicians whose main purpose in life seems to be to enrich their cronies, friends and relatives, and further their own megalomaniacal aspirations.

We have seen a major erosion in our civil and human rights, and the abrogation of those rights for non-citizens.

We have lost the trust, admiration and respect of almost all the rest of the world, which now views us as immoral, hypocritical bullies and killers who preach what we don't practice.

We have posturing, blathering politicians -- on all sides -- whose main purpose seems to be advancing their own power, ensuring pork for their friends back home, and fattening their own already overweight egos.

We have a nation where a substantial percentage of people don't believe in evolution, voted for Bush twice, think that what Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh say is actually true, still blame Saddam Hussein and Iraq for 9/11, and care more about American Idol than American values.

And meanwhile, Gonzalez, "in fact, doesn't recall" and no, they weren't trying to get back at Joe Wilson by outing Valerie Plame, and Brownie did a heckuva job, and the surge in Iraq is going great, and, global warming is just a delusion of Al Gore, and Dick Cheney does indeed have a working heart.

What's the point?

The fact that Bush believes "This is an honest and honorable man in whom I have confidence" tells us much more about Bush than anything.

A torture-promoting, lying, memory-like-a-sieve, Peter Principle poster-child like Gonzalez is honest and honorable, and merits being our nation's highest law enforcement official.

Sure, Georgie. Whatever you say.

The minions had no idea where or how the various US attorneys landed on the list, but they did their job.

Gonzo had no idea where or how the various US attorneys landed on the list, and didn't bother to find out, but he is sure that his staff were above-board and professional and that the attorneys who were fired deserved to be.

Bush has no idea what Gonzo said or did in his testimony, but he is sure that his AG is above-board and professional and honest.

Is there anyone managing ANYTHING in this administration who actually believes has a clue what their subordinates are doing?

Perhaps those who are shilling for Hillary and/or angling for White House communications jobs in a Hillary administration might consider it an admission of a mistake.

To those of us with nothing at stake but our rights, our tax dollars, and our sons and daughters -- sorry, Joan, but no, it very much does NOT count.

And I agree with my fellow poster...trying to squirm around to manufacture remorse or apologies on behalf of Hillary is not your shining moment.

Nor does it do anything to the ever-deepening body of evidence that you are shilling for Hillary...

But what those nations who are disgusted by this WILL do -- little voices say -- is withhold their payments to the Bank in protest, basically turning Wolfie into a puppet until he can be disappearaed when the the next administration comes in.

Winner: Wolfie and Bush -- and Shaha of course

Losers: the poverty stricken people who benefit from World Bank support, the World Bank staff who have been railroaded and stomped on by Wolfie, Shaha and their band of thugs