Why don't you explain to us unenlightened folk how a Democratic congress is going to pass sweeping, or even modest progressive legislation while President fucktard wields the veto pen?

The Gonzalez “scandal” revolves around the reasons for firing political appointees. Gee, who would have thought that politics may play a role in determining who is, or who is not, a political appointee?

The "criminalizing politics" argument is bullshit.

Politics is a pretty inclusive rubric. Yes, hiring and firing decisions are "political" in that Presidents favor officials with a similar ideological bent, who in turn enforce the President's policies by pursuing cases selectively. Given the limited resources of the Justice Department there could be no alternative.

The problem with this President and his Justice department is that their sole policy priority appears to be the perpetuation of Republican power. Politics in the raw usually describes the means by which parties pursue or enact policies reflective of their ideology. This Justice Department has inverted that dynamic, with policies serving to advance the political exigencies of the President and his party. While one could argue that a President's policy objectives are inextricable from his political exigencies, the dramatic degree to which the former has been turned to serve the latter is unprecedented.

The President and his party worship at the altar of power. It is not a conservative ideology; it is an authoritarian one. Power is their ideology.

That is why the the Federal Prosecutor scandal is so alarming.

"Is it true? Does Majority Leader Reid plan on ignoring Senator Dodd's hold on the pending "Protect America Act"?

If so, I want Senator Reid and the rest of the Democratic leadership to understand one thing:

We're watching.

The Country is watching you, Senator Reid. This isn't like the 80s and 90s. There is a functional alternative press reporting exhaustively--minute-by-minute--the acts of your office, and indeed your entire party caucus. Moreover, this alternative press gives us context.

We know what you're doing. We know the implications. And we have reasonable suspicion of your motives.

I needn't restate the relevant facts and arguments. I'm sure your office is well apprised of what's at stake.

But bear in mind: the people watching you are the affluent, articulate sort. We help shape opinion on the ground level.

And we are very unhappy.

We see the Rule of Law being subverted before our very eyes. We see the party we helped put into office disregard--even deride our political beliefs. We see a party abiding the crimes of a corrupt, deceitful, dangerously incompetent President.

You are not helping your party, and you are not helping your country. You are abiding lawlessness, Mr. Reid.

In the end, the good people of this country will always choose the Rule of Law over the Rule of Men. Make sure your party is on the right side.

Sincerely,

XXX

J.D. Candidate, Class of 2009

University of Oregon School of Law"

I want that manuscript on my desk by Friday!

How about flagrant political pardons, torture of detainees, suspension of habeus corpus, voter suppression, an unprecedented Supreme Court intervention in a national election, and a disastrous war yielding horrors not seen since the Cambodian genocide.

And you're telling me, that the INTERNET is to blame?!

The fallacy that citizens across the ideological spectrum are responsible for the moral/political atrocities of the past seven years is beyond insulting.

Stick to the law, Mr. Sunstein.

Seven years and I'm still not fully conditioned to the idea.