Finally Salon understands that we're in the middle of a freakin' constitutional crisis here!

It's just a bit of coincidence, but as I began to read this article, Dylan's "Masters Of War" began to play on my computer. A fitting song I think, as Dylan was writing during the Vietnam era, and here we stand, a generation, a lifetime removed from the facts of that mess of a lost war and now involved in a new, messy, quite possibly lost war.

Blumenthal's article highlights the tangents connecting this White House, with its reach towards unitarian executivism, to Nixon's White House, which had begun an attempt to begin the same.

Like Dylan's song, I find myself at times filled only with anger and resentment about a group of people so callous in their disregard for the lives, privacy and dignity of not only the citizens in its walls, but also the citizens of the entire world.

Rove stands as an operator of sorts, a keen Machiavelli figure, deviod of morals and honesty. One can only hope that justice will come soon. To paraphrase Dylan, I hope that, politically at least, "his death will come soon/"

"I'll follow your casket on a pale afternoon.

I'll watch till your lowered down to your death bed

And I'll stand over your grave/

Till I'm sure that you're dead."

I picture him at a pig roast turning slowly over the coals with an apple in his mouth. Looks like it might happen, figuratively of course.

all wrapped up in the pasty face of the Pillsbury Doughboy of Evil!!

"Two men enter, one man leaves." My guess is that Bush will sacrifice his lawyer, Alberto Gonzales, to shield his brain, Karl Rove.

Master and Blaster will thereby remain joined to continue to rule the pigsty.

"Break the deal, face the wheel." And if any pig dares to squeal, he will swiftly and vindictively be turned into pork rinds.

But if Master Rove were to slip from Blaster Bush's protective grasp and end up being trampled in the sty, poor Blaster would be left befuddled, gibbering, and utterly helpless.

If it happens, it will not be a pretty sight.

Sidney Blumenthal is always on target, he always does great writing, and he researches his topic impeccably. And it's always at the most pertinent and critical level. All these factors together make for improvement of the public discourse and an improvement in our lives. He deserves our great thanks.

As far as Rove, he is living proof of the Law of Karma. Someone this putrid, and really this pipsqueeky, was never destined for greatness or longevity. The same goes for Bush. A president at this level of mediocrity was never destined for indefinite impunity.

Which is where we, the "American" people come in. Through relentless, continuous pressure, the wheels of justice can be aided in their turning. A little lubrication here and there, a letter here and there, a call here and there, an email or two, it all helps.

The pressure will keep Rove busy. It will make Bush and Cheney crack. Most probably didn't notice, but I listened to Gonzales's "press conference" on the radio yesterday, and noticed a tinge of desperation in his voice. He knows it's all over, and he's a weakling. No one should forget that it was he that devised the torture rationale for Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. It was also he who advised Bush on the 52 executions he approved in Texas. If ever there were a gang that deserved a lifetime of prison at hard labor, it is this bunch. They have done all they could to wreck the country, and the only intended beneficiaries are themselves. The nation's focus should be on removing them from power, and then bringing them to justice.

It may not seem like it, but the Democrats are doing just that. Just like in Watergate, the country needs a civics lesson. And also just like in Watergate, the process needs to build momentum. At a certain point of critical mass, what little is left of honor in the Republican party will turn against the Bush gang. When that happens, it will all be downhill. A little more patience and a lot more persistence are all we need.

Can Salon PLEASE remove that close-up picture of Rove? I'm serious, it's giving me hives. A visceral reaction--I don't want to look at that much evil that closely in the face.

Keep digging..and keep on asking the questions.

You will find that this is a real constitutional crisis, and that this far outweighs Watergate.

Who isn't in on this mess? From what I can see, nobody at the top isn't, and that they're all in over their heads-from the president on down. Seems to me the last time this happened, the president was forced to resign under threat of impeachment.

It's time for a special prosecutor, and subpoenas.

They also report, "Data indicate that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops." Thus what the 85 U.S. attorneys who were not dismissed are doing is starkly detailed.

this passage makes me want to throw up, because i can see rove and his minions circling around the stew with their witches hats on and cackling 'hehehe, and the best part is, we can indict five hundred democrats for every republican, and nobody can say a thing because when asked we will just say that it's because there are more corrupt democrats'

and guess how long they spent pondering if the media and public at large would be stupid enough to bite into that s*it if asked?

How could Gonzales testify previously that the firings were all based on performance unless he had investigated the bases of the firings? And if he had investigated these bases, he clearly spoke to his chief of staff and knew the truth. In other words, he flat out lied to Congress when he said the firings were based on performance. The Attorney General of the United States flat out lies to Congress!! And they wanted to impeach Clinton for lying about a sexual tryst? This guy needs to be prosecuted for all the reasons that those who sought to impeach Clinton justified their actions.