recording everything. Are we going to get anything similar from Bush II in 30 years? I'm not asking rhetorically. Did Bush record his conversations? Keep notes from sensitive meetings? We know they destoyed the CIA torture tapes.

On a related matter: What's with the drip, drip, drip of Nixon tapes? I swear, like twice a year we get another crazy Nixon conversation. Is it just that it takes a long time to listen to them all? How long have they been declassified?

I nominate GG to defend whatever sacrificial lamb Obaholder offers up to the gods of executive lawlessness. I'll miss the blog, but I'll survive.

Speaking of the founders being on the far left in this day and age, I heard some conservative that had a job in the Bush admin, forgot who, invoke that Ben Franklin quote (paraphrasing) "Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither." It was in a relatively recent interview. The point being, the bastards know how radical the Founders were. For christ sake, Noam Chomsky would not have said what Franklin said. To suggest that some people don't deserve security? And making matters even worse for neoconservatives, the Founders were trying to build and sustain a country that was basically the lifeboat for their philosophy of democracy and human rights, and it was beset in its early years by at least two empires at any given point. We, on the other hand, are the world's only superpower, or empire, and our liberty is apparently threatened. Please. If someone wants to try their fearmongering on me, I will suggest that they speak for themselves.

It would be somewhat ironic if John Ashcroft were the first one to be nailed. According to James Comey's hospital story, Ashcroft actually thought there were limits to what the government could do, however insufficient those limits were.

Isn't it perfectly legal to spy on Congress? If it isn't, it should be.