After reading the article posted, I have realized how very necessary it is to impeach this tyranical dictator whom is destroying our beautiful country. I am afraid, if he is allowed to continue his reign of terror, he will do something drastic at the end of the term. I specifically went and got registered to vote this last election (after the previous election travesty). I saw that we need to make a statement. It's odd, though, how we had 45% more new registered voters this time around and he still won!! I do not quite agree that he should not be impeached. I am terribly afraid that he will take nuclear action. He is UNSTABLE and DANGEROUS! This whole religious crusade he is on blatenly dismisses the words of our constitution. We NEED to end this regime. We don't need other terrorists because we have our own little bastard in office!! How many officials need to resign? How many children need to die? How mich longer do we need to send our NEXT GENERATION to their DEATHS?! I have had enough!! He goes nuclear... There is the end!! We drop one they drop one china drops one japan... etc. NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!!! Impeach the 96 point I.Q.ed bastard.

As Professor Johnathon Turley already pointed out the Bush administration is more like Sovietism than American democracy..

The Justice Dept. has been transformed into the new American NKVD..prosecuting based upon political party whims and motivations..

In a time when the FBI and the rest of The Justice dept. needs the aid and cooperation of the American people with this type of enemy as we see this week in New Jersey, instead The FBI and Justice Dept. have lost the trust of the American people who they have been persecuting and eavesdropping on while at the same time letting our borders be crossed each day by thousands of strangers and no doubt among these masses terrorists..

Karl Rove is the American Beria and Bush our Unitary Dictator..

The FBI already disgraced itself with over 35,000 National Security letters and Bus suspends the Constitution with every signing letter over 700 so far..

Yet our Senate and Congress lack the guts to Impeach these criminals who have so disgraced our nation..

I'd vote to Impeach Bush and Cheney for all they've done if it was their last day in office, for the sake of generations to come, just to show we are a nation of laws and a Constitution and not lying incompetent thugs..

There needs to be a line drawn here-between what Bill rightly refers to as elite in the sense of good or better or best, and between elite in the sense of C. Wright Mills "power elite". In this sense Bush and his cadre are the embodiment of elite-ignorant social-psychopaths with a sense of entitlement strong as the noonday sun and with generation upon generation of inbreeding dissipating the truly elite, aristocratic qualities that earned their forebears positions of prominence. If the bush family is an exemplar of modern aristocrats, then they are also the poster-family for why the death-tax should be increased ten-fold. What happened to the days when being an elite meant you could ride a horse better than anybody in the kingdom, would likely win nine-out-of-ten sword duels in which you engaged, and could write two seperate letters to two different political allies in two different languages at the same time with your left and right hands? Bush can't do any of these things, though he apparently spends alot of time daydreaming about riding horses. The future patriarch of the Bush family has trouble even speaking his mother tounge. I never thought I would be so nostalgic about a time when the aristocracy rode around the country-side raping and humiliating peasants, but at least those guys could appreciate a finely honed passage of prose.

Keep swinging the hammer, Bill. We Americans, elitists and others didn't pay attention to the shrublets who repeatedly decried government. Since they don't believe it is part of the weal it is easy to send incompetents and their like to DC. They are there to see that nothing is done, or if done then screwed up beyond help.

Query, How many of these Regent grads are admitted to state bars and/or the DC bar?

As you know, non-performance or slow-footed compliance are as good as ignoring laws these people are sent to office to execute faithfully.

Oh, hell, you said it better than I.

Basically anybody who graduated from college can go to a 4th tier law school. I have a useless degree from an average state school and I got into far better law schools than Regent.

I will say though that Regent's LSAT scores and GPA are a little higher than some other tier 4 schools, probably because some of the smarter religious quacks would rather go there than a better school that doesnt correspond with their interpretation of the law. Real law schools tend to be on the liberal side, mostly because they are run by people of above average intellegence.

Great article

I think the equally large problem with this administration is that those with the brains (Rove, Norquist, Wolfowitz, Rice, etc) are driven by idealogy rather than reality. These "conservative elite" are so focused on their predetermined agendas (democracy in the middle east, business interests) they are immune to facts. It seems that no matter how bad things get they will stubbornly stick to the plan convinced that maybe a few more troops will turn around a civil war that they created or that global warming will conveniently go away simply because they don't believe in it. Luckily for them an entire "news" industry (fox) has sprung up to do away with those pesky facts and they have filled the lower rungs with mindless followers and intellectual bottom feeders who would follow Bush off a cliff because somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, he has convinced them that he is a man of God.

I would like a personally mature leader with a profound imagination and deeply compassionate heart.

Plain old IQ doesn't do it. Nor does B.A., M.A. or J.D.

Positive leadership emobodies something very big and creative. It's not just book learning (not that I'm agin that).