Either you are a goose-stepping tosspot, or you too stupid to know one when you see one. Either way, who needs ya?

Those same Republicans cannot now argue that the absence of an underlying crime somehow vitiates the charge of perjury. -- Jeff W

A jury found Libby guilty. What conservatives want is similar sentencing. Berger stole classified documents, lied about it, then pleaded guilty. He got probation. Clinton committed perjury, had his law license lifted and settled a civil suit for a large amount of money. He stayed in office and now makes millions.

Libby is sentenced to 30 months in jail, double the guideline. As usual, IOKIYAD.

Dear Glenn:

Thank you once again for exposing the intellectual vacuousness of yourself your self-serving democrat soulmates with another of your vitriolic, grade school level rants against GWB that is long on mean spirited distortions, blatant falsehoods, invective, and meaningness insights, but completely devoid of any common sense, logic, ideas, solutions, enlightement, or concern for the realities of America's geopolitical situation or the fact that the louder you rage with your ridiculously irresponsible and self-important screeds, the louder the applause you generate in the demonic world of radical Islam.

Glenn you are exactly like the democrat party. A mass of vitriolic raging hatespeak with absolutely NO positive or productive solutions for America's problems and NO concern for America's national security. If GWB is as bad as you make him out to be, why is it so IMPOSSIBLE for you to EVER offer ANY POSITIVE and CREDIBLE alternatives to his positions? Why is it that you find so much joy in FALSELY bashing GWB with no regard for the FACT that you are thereby serving the interests of America's worst enemies? Why is respectful criticism accompanied by credible alternatives not a better way to achieve your political objectives? Is the adreneline rush you get from false rage really more important than the welfare of America's children?

I possessed a very low regard for GWB when I started reading your invectives, but the more I read your irrational hatespeak, the more respect I have for GWB. As bad as GWB may be, he never has to sink to your level of hateful discourse and he always has the courage to offer a strategy. His strategies may be flawed, but he is never so low as to criticize anyone without providing an alternative. You cannot say the same.

The last thing America needs in 2008 is another incompetent President who cannot articulate a credible rationale for their positions. So far, none of the democrat candidates have offered responsible, positive and credible alternatives to ANY of GWBs policies. Abject surrender in Iraq is not a national security strategy that protects America's vital interests and socialism is not a credible alternative to capitalism. So far, that is all you and the democrats have offered as alternatives to what GWB is doing. Until you can offer something better, you only increase his stature among responsible people who are capable of rational thought.

Doesn't peddling deceitful hatespeak day after day for a living get old? Is your conscience really so vacant that it is impossible for you to reach for a higher level of consciousness and civil discourse that moves America to unite around rational ideas and move in a positive direction? Is it really more important to be a raging partisan than a responsible American?

Still, I think Paul Rosenberg is essentially correct. Conservatism as we know it is basically about making -- and rabidly defending -- distinctions between those who get to live in the Big House and have debates about politics and economics over mint juleps out on the veranda, and those others who hew the wood, draw the water, and don't have the benefits of instruction in the higher aims of civilization. - William Timberman

This is precisely why I think Frederick Douglass's narrative of his life as a slave should be required reading... and more than once. It isn't just about race-- although he writes about race so eloquently-- but also about education. Douglass knew that an eduation was important enough to steal; and he took every opportunity to steal his. First, he learned that everyone had a different idea about what would be an appropriate education for him... and that their ideas depended upon their own social and econonomic status (and maybe their political leanings).

Contrast that understanding with the slaves he knew who were content to have a week off at Christmas to let off steam with whiskey, etc. Just more Bread & Circuses. Now we have television, and it's so much more effective.

What no one seems to want to teach anyone is that the best reason to get an education is to learn how to subvert the agenda, and turn your education to your own purposes.

[And, I bought Al Gore's new book this week.]

The only thing more difficult to imagine than Bucky Fellini and Buckminster Fuller sitting down for a beer together is that they'd have the poor taste to invite you.

Speak when spoken to, peon.

And consider yourself blessed that We deign to take notice of you. You mustn't get used to it.

And they simply do not believe in the basic constitutional values which have defined the country since its inception, nor do they believe in the rule of law (hence the virtual consensus that convicted felon Lewis Libby should be pardoned). What else do they need to embrace in order to eliminate all doubts about that?

I'm especially curious about the 28-30% that still support this miserable failure.

If W was captured live and on camera buggering a toddler there is not a doubt in my mind that this 30% would instantly believe forced anal rape of a two year old was perfectly fine*

* As long as it was done by a Republican of course.

Frederick Douglass is one of the truly great men of American history, and a personal hero of mine. And I have to say it, what black people have accomplished in this country, considering the circumstances under which they accomplished it, is one of the miracles of this or any other age. Reason enough, I would say, to consign all the monarchist, elitist -- and yes, racist -- claptrap some folks have been marketing here to the dustbin of history once and for all.