Since Miers is an ultimate Bush insider, she will have to recuse herself when Plame-gate and any other of the Bush Crime Family affairs make its way to the Supreme Court. This will leave the court split 4-4 and judgement free.

This is just one more stain on the Constitution by this current incarnation of the Republican Party in a very long list of self-serving action by Bush that has consistantly put corporation before people and party over country.

There are still two unanswered questions regarding this whole NSA "Snoop-Gate" scandal that are still nagging at me. (Other than whether Snoop-Dawg is due any royalities.) Who did Bush and Cheney have in their sights that if their names were to cross a FISA judge's desk would be just too embarassing? And secondly, what did the New York Times know and when did they know it? It might have been nice for the American people to have this kind of information before the 2004 presidential election.

Two facts however are indisputable. First, the national media, including the formally dauntless NYT, are completely cowed by the Bush Administration. And secondly, the Bush Administration has no shame nor morals and will not stop at anything to further their grasp on power.

With a Republican in the White House, we are all reminded how "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

What did the New York Times know and when did they know it? It might have been nice for the American people to have this kind of information before the 2004 presidential election.

The formally dauntless NYT, are completely cowed by the Bush Administration. The Bush Administration has no shame nor morals and will not stop at anything to further their grasp on power.

When a Republican is in the White House, we are all reminded how "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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Reagan could not have become president if there was no Soviet Union to rail against. And when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union fell they were caught off guard. They didn't have a second act. Without the communist boogieman to rail against, they were adrift and subsequently the Republicans lost the White House. The "Red Menace" provided cover for all their military adventurism across the decades. It is more than convenient for them to canonize Reagan for slaying the Red Dragon, while turning a blind eye to the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of civilian deaths in Central America and around the world that were a result of the Reagan/Bush foreign policy. (Who really knows when Reagan became too incapacitated to continue his already limited role as president.)

The Republicans had no vested interest in ending the "cold war". Their action, or lack of them, in Iraq shows that they haven't changed their game plan. Military adventurism, cloaked under the flag, can be exploited to make domestically political hay for decades. The tragic irony is that that in their myopic quest to make national security the platform with which to win elections, they have actually jeopardized it. With Reagan it was exposing the United States to a high risk nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, and now with George W. Bush it is baiting radical Islamic fundamentalist "to bring it on", maybe with some of those loose nukes Ronald Reagan drove the Soviet Union to build in the 1980's.

Whether it was Salon Editors or Farhad Manjoo the headline categorically claiming that "NO" the election wasn't stolen, was ham handed at best and left little room for discussion or debate. Whether Farhad Manjoo has some history with Robert Kennedy I don't know, but the tone of his article was dismissive and condescending.

But to digress a little, since the county is in mood for amending the Constitution, why doesn't someone suggest an amendment guaranteeing the right to vote so that the when there are more shenanigan as we were treated to in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2006 then there could be a legal means to to redress grievances.