It seems a videotape showing Hillary being intimately involved in an illegal campaign contribution has surfaced. Hmmmm. Perjury, campaign finance violations, it could be a few years in the pokey for Hillary. Bill will have to find a sympathetic ear for the duration. Heh.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55320

It's spelled "Velvel" not "Vevel".

Please delete this comment. I would email you, Glenn if I knew your email address.

That's been out there for awhile. Did you wet yourself from excitement when you saw it?

Note: Please do not consider this a dialogue. The question was purely rhetorical.

I think you really wussed out on the impeachment topic over at FDL by not explaining, for example, what you think is the Big Priority all the Congressional Energy would be sapped from if the House started holding pre-Impeachment High Crimes and Misdemeanor Hearings.

Congress is basically non-functional as a representative body right now, and not all from Republican obstructionism. No, a big part of it, perhaps the biggest, is the fact that the House and the Senate capitulated to the White House over the War Funding Supplemental, essentially sending the White House one bill with (unenforceable) timelines that was vetoed, and then giving up. Then, magnifying the outrage, they come with a Deal with the White House for Immigration "Reform". Oh, and don't forget the NAFTA Deal.

Who knows what other shit they are trying to "negotiate" behind the scenes. Whatever it is, I'm sure it is just as ugly, just as unpopular, and just as infuriating. To everyone -- except of course their corporate sponsors.

So why don't they just stop it? Drop all this Deal-making, negotiating, and capitulating and take up something important, hearings on the anti-American, anti-Constitutional, lawless con game emanating from the White House?

What harm could be done? They would be unable to do anything else? So? This is a bad thing how exactly?

And the People might just learn a thing or two.

As someone who likes to read, C-Span2 on the weekend is a great place to get ideas. The authors range from famous to obscure and it seems like every other weekend there is a good dose of authors that would appeal to the masses that have become or always were disgusted with Bush and those that fervently support his failed presidency. Heck I'd think an appearance by Glenn in a public setting discussing his new book could be some good exposure. It never seemed to hurt John Dean's book sales. Come on Glenn, do one of those mini-tours. You would have been great at the LA TIMES BOOK FAIR.

While I missed the FDL event, I did catch Glenn's interview this AM with Ian Masters on his Pacifica Radio show. While it probably won't be available in podcast form for a week or two, the URL for same is:

http://www.ianmasters.org/left_coast.html

While Glenn didn't break much in the way of new ground, he did reiterate an important constitutional point which resonated with me, to wit:

The Framers well understood the innate human will to power (though I don't believe he used such an explicit Nietzschian term), and designed the US tripartite separation of powers and system of checks and balances accordingly.

In other words, they saw the ilk of Cheny coming and provided accordingly.

Now it is up to us, in our particular Zeitgeist to respond to Franklin's implied challenge: a republic, if we can keep it.

Gary Kreep?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/22/1159/79819

CPAC: Judiciary Activists Attack 'Undermedicated, Psychotic Lefties'

While yesterday’s segment at CPAC devoted to judicial nominees – featuring Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), who can count few fans at the event – was sparsely attended, even fewer showed up for today’s panel discussion on “judicial activism” instead of joining the crowds for Mike Huckabee and Wayne LaPierre of the NRA down the hall. Still, Jan LaRue of Concerned Women for America, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, and a man named Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation did their best to keep the attention of the handful of conference-goers on the subject that was one of the most vigorously touted at last year’s CPAC.

The enemies remained the same: judges who “legislate from the bench” and believe in a “living Constitution” which they “write … at will,” and senators who opposed some of Bush’s extreme nominations or who participated in the “Gang of 14” deal that halted the march toward the “nuclear option,” which would have forced through a rule change eliminating filibusters on those nominations. Fitton said of the filibustered nominees that “liberals thought they were too conservative, and yes, too Christian.” LaRue described as “undermedicated” and “psychotic” Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with groups like People For the American Way that opposed confirmation of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

The judicial heroes were also familiar: Roberts and Alito, whose successful appointment LaRue called the “biggest grassroots victory” in years; Justice Clarence Thomas, whom Fitton described as a model for “humble judges” who “restrain themselves.” In addition, Kreep singled out Janice Rogers Brown, perhaps the most radical of Bush’s appellate nominees, for her success in getting on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. According to Kreep, Brown was targeted because of her race by the Democratic Party, “one of the most racist” groups in country, which he said opposes any minority who doesn’t “kiss their tuckuses” and “say ‘yessa massa.’”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/groups/united_states_j/

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_Justice_Foundation

I dunno about the rest of you, but I'd be less frightened of Bush (a little less) if his religion was merely an expedient, and he himself was a pure cynic.

But, I agree with Glenn, I think the guy really does believe God talks to him. I find that far more disturbing than any bogus relious belief.

Don't you?

Our country is in very deep trouble. The wealthy elites picked a very dangerous horse. the question is, as always, can we survive the tender ministrations of those who hold the power in this country?