We all knew the dems would cave. We all knew Bush would get what he wanted. We knew it the moment Harry Reid choose the FISA bill with telco immunity, over the one without it, that it was a done deal. All the time that asshat Harry saying he opposed telco immunity, while doing everything in his power to ensure they got it. The only rational explanation for the dems behavior is what? I just can't figure it out anymore. Is it because they are bought and paid for by lobbyist money? Is it because the Bush admin has been blackmailing them? What the hell is wrong with them? They had to have received thousands of calls against this, and yet they are doing it anyway. What ever you want to say about Bush, you can't say he didn't have a successful presidency. He got almost everything he wanted. Thank you dems for being an "opposition" party. You sure did a cracker jack job of it.

I think El Cid nailed the explanation I was looking for, he answered why the democrats in congress act like they do. They don't care if they lose power, because it's not their true goal. Their goal is ensuring that the corporations are supreme. That nothing stands in their way. We do live in a fascist/corporatist state. Electing Obama isn't going to change anything, I'm afraid. The corporations rule us. Can I get a Seig Heil?

I caught ABC's Nightline last week and they were discussing the Rezko affair. As I remember it, Obama bought a house from the guy at less then market value. Like 300,000 dollars less. So while it may not of been illegal, the appearance is bad. It looks like a quid quo pro. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about this though.

My second thought is that Hillary's decision to stay in the race, while impossible to overcome Obama's delegate count, is just going to ensure John McCain becomes the next president. Since she's gone negative on Obama, providing tons of free ammunition for McCain in the general election, she's going to destroy our party. If she manages to steal the nomination through use of the super delegates, I will not vote for her. I'll vote for McCain, before I vote for that selfish narcisttic BITCH. With democratic "friends" like Hillary, who needs enemies?

Thank you for the correction Glenn. Like I wrote, I said as I remember it. As I also wrote, correct me if I'm wrong. Sorry my memory wasn't perfect. It was 300,000 less then original price, not market value. I apologize ok, please forgive me. Jesus tap dancing Christ you people are pathetic sometimes.

The justice system is fine. It has yet to show partiality to power in my opinion. Evan Stenberg

Well Evan you obviously are completely unaware of the Don Siegelman case. I suggest you check out the 60 Minutes report they ran on him a couple weeks ago. Or you can peruse the multiple segments the Dan Abrams Show (MSNBC website) has run on the case. Siegelman was the victim of a political prosecution by the US Attorney's office in Alabama. Then their is the purging of the US attorney's office, that was done for political reasons. Karl Rove and Harriet Miers have defied congressional subpeona's and the AG Mukasey refuses to honor congressional contempt citations. He is refusing to follow the law and have allow the US attorney for DC to prosecute them for that. So how exactly is has the justice system not shown partiality to power?

When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When he is doing the US's bidding. Vanity Fair reported this week that the Bush admin backed a coup to overthrow the democratically elected gov't of Hamas in Gaza. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804 Great article, amazing it hasn't gotten more media attention. But typical of everything the Bush admin has done, they screwed it up. Instead of weakening Hamas, they ended up strengthening it.

A couple days ago we fired missiles into Somalia. The goal was to kill a "terrorist" leader associated with groups linked to Alqaeda. Unfortunatley some innocent civilians were killed as well, a few children I recall. What's known in the military as "colloratal damage". We see this all the time, especially when Israel uses deadly force. They'll blow up an entire building to kill one terrorist. If a few dozen innocent civilians get killed with him, so be it. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

This is off topic but what's the status of the telco immunity bill? Has the house approved it yet? With everyone distracted by yesterday's primaries, I'm amazed it wasn't rammed through. Sneak it by when everyone's attention is elsewhere. Today's Rocky Mtn News had a letter to the editor that has to be seen to be believed. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/mar/05/maybe-if-nacchio-had-cooperated/ The writer states that if Qwest had cooperated with the Bush admin's warrantless wiretapping requests before 9/11, maybe it could of been prevented. Wow is all I can say. What do you do with a person like that? There is no way you can have a reasonable discussion with that kind of person. You can show them the truth 9 ways til Sunday, and they still aren't going to get it.