This:

Ok, according to Glenn, Fox is the equivalent of a Venezuelan media outlet (hugo chavez shuts down those outlets when they disagree with him).

That would put obama in the role of the lying, thieving, murdering hugo chavez.

hugo is a socialist. Ipso facto, obama is a socialist.

Glenn finally gets it.

Therefore, by the logically calculated "ipso facto" theory of blathering idiocy, this must also be true:

I once saw a blog commenter who I thought was an idiot----NotOrbitBoy is a blog commenter---therefore, ipso facto, NotOrbitBoy is an idiot.

Easy as pie.

Yutz.

Glenn, I really think if you get an opportunity to get your like-minded influential blogger friends and colleagues to write about the healthcare debate using this framework, it would do a lot of good.

It is as simple and stark as this: We'd rather fund death, than life.

Boy-oh-boy would the heads of hardcore pro-lifers and gun nuts explode at that thought.

On a secondary note, I hope everyone just ignores shooter's comments. They, like he, really isn't worth the time or effort for the most painfully obvious reasons.

...was just excellent. You have really sharpened your interviewing skills the past couple of years and are really doing well at formulating and expressing really complex issues in ways most people haven't (but should) heard much before.

I thought your discussion of the state of the country's lack of ability/desire to seriously challenge and protest en masse the mass corruption was spot on.

We need to find a way to defeat that feeling. It really is the only way this country isn't going to burn to the ground if things don't change, and fast.

As we read, hear, watch, and learn more and more how our own government and its politicians refuse to be held accountable for our own (and international) laws, how long and by what measure will ordinary citizens start adopting those same behaviors on a widespread scale?

If we have become such a "nanny state" in that our government must be involved in virtually every aspect of our lives and lead us by example, when do we say, "Ahh, the heck with these laws here, I don't need to follow these, I'm answering to a higher calling."?

Stop paying your credit card bills--screw the legalized loan sharks. Stop paying your taxes--why fund terrorist organizations? Start new fake medical equipment businesses and other sham companies and bilk the government even more...

When does this overt criminal behavior slide down to the masses and simply become "the way it is?"

Oh yeah, that two-tiered justice system thing....right right, forgot about that. But what happens when that system can no longer handle the amount of malfeasance being perpetrated?

Maybe that's when the riots grow too large, and real change comes to America. It just won't be the "change we can believe in."

Do people ever hold protests on the steps of the WaPo for the utter crap they print like this? Where are the "Bag Brooks" signs and coverage of this? Don't we have an obligation to demonize truly evil people like this on a widespread, multi-media basis? I would argue that we do.

He is the perfect example of a different (yet very legitimate) use of "Accountability Now" funds.

I obviously got the paper that Brooks wrote the article for wrong, but my point doesn't change as a result.

if the bill passes

who will do the audit? how do we know it will be objective? would it be some corporate accounting firm?

does anyone know the answers to these questions?

I believe the Obama administration already has a shortlist of candidates to conduct the audit. They are:

1) Dick Cheney

2) Any of the Enron guys who aren't in jail,

3) Perennial Fed All-Star Alan Greenspan, and

4) Retired Army General and super war profiteer Barry McCaffrey.

Don't worry, Zepgirl, no one who has the necessary skills and abilities and/or who doesn't have a massive conflict of interest will be considered.

*end snark*

It really is unfortunate that our government is so very corrupt and rotten that even small but important victories like these have to be put in such context given how these games are played.

I just hope I'm wrong, and a real meaty committee of talented and principled parties are given any authority necessary to thoroughly audit the Fed's entire balance sheet.

*resume snark*

While I'm wishing, I'd also like a rainbow and a new concrete driveway to immediately fly out of my ass, regardless of how much either of those might hurt.

Apparently the new letters format doesn't like.......um....formatting commands.

Can't help it.....must go to WaPo editorial page and post one of your paragraphs......trying to resist is simply futile....

Think I'll go with this one:

"Criminals"? "Prosecutions"? "Obliged to open a case"? "Violations of human rights"? Just because they maintained a few secret prisons in violation of domestic and international law? What kind of crazy, purist, Far Leftist utopians are running that place? They need a heavy dose of pragmatism so they can understand all the reasons why so-called "crimes" like this can be overlooked -- just blissfully forgotten like a bad dream. Even worse, with intemperate and shrill language of the type they're throwing around, it's seems clear that the Lithuanian press is sorely in need of some David Broders, Fred Hiatts, and David Ignatiuses to explain to them that subjecting law-breaking political officials to "investigations" and "prosecutions" is quite disruptive and unpleasant when those crimes involve matters other than consensual sex between adults.

Yeah, yeah....that's the ticket.

This has got to be in my top 3 favorite posts of all time.....a work of art, really.