OK - let's just ignore it all then. It's all so hopeless. They are Winners. There is nothing poor us can do about any of it.

I have been reading you for a while now and I have yet to detect a chink in your ideological armor. You never give up. You try to steer clear of cynicism. You stick to the facts and correct your errors whenever and wherever you find them. You're all about the Constitution and Bill of Rights. You comment section is populated with every conceivable variety of ideological flora and fauna and you don't seem to mind. In fact, you almost never delete a comment, no matter how egregious or over-the-top it is.

I only have one question. Is that normal?

Glenn:

Your argument is congruent with remediating and restoring a dysfunctional system within the framework of the constitution. However, there has already been a coup, and the people no longer have representation, power and control over their own governance.

The appointment of a new US attorney general is simply theatre - a performance. In reality, there is no more rule of law. Laws are applied unevenly and only used to oppress and control those deemed dangerous to the corporatacracy, the unitary executive and the military used to portect the interests of the first two.

You left a sarcastic comment about giving up and doing nothing.

Actually, what is needed is another revolution to oust the entire elected government on the federal level and to install elected representatives who will actually do the will of we, the people, and who will uphold, support and defend the Constitution from ALL ENEMIES - FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

Our gravest enemies are currently installed in the White House, and in the House and the Senate. It is our civic duty to identify them as enemies of the Constitution and to remove them from office.

That's what we must do. We must not allow the circuses of the current two corrupt and broken party system to continue to destroy what's remaining of the US Constitution and of the US model of a democratic government.

"If it's appropriate for Democrats to filibuster Republican AG candidates, then it's appropriate for Republicans to do the same to judicial and exec branch nominees should a Democrat be elected in 08..."

If Democrats learn to govern effectively and also do so, there's no reason why they cannot both capture the WH and increase their majorities in both houses to the point where they won't have to worry about retribution from the GOP.

However, if the Democrats remain afraid of their own shadows, they'll neither govern effectively, or obtain either the WH or a more solid majority in Congress.

Regardless, the first thing the Democrats should do upon returning from recess is to pitch HolyJoe Leiberman (R-Tel Aviv) off his committee leadership assignments and give him an office in the basement.

Actually, what is needed is another revolution to oust the entire elected government on the federal level and to install elected representatives who will actually do the will of we, the people, and who will uphold, support and defend the Constitution from ALL ENEMIES - FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

So you're saying we should just ignore the whole AG issue, allow Bush to replace Gonzales with whomever he wants, since it doesn't matter?

What specifically are you doing to advance the Real Revolution?

It strikes me that the timing of Gonzales' resignation must have been carefully orchestrated. Why dump him now after propping him up for so long? The White House would rather talk about Gonzales and the problems surrounding the Justice Department than the situation in Iraq and the upcoming report on the surge.

Don't worry about the death and destruction in Iraq--look over here at Gonzales and these other more nuanced legalistic problems that we hope the average American doesn't understand and thus forgets about.

Here's a thought, Dems get Sandra Day O'Connor to agree to be the interim AG, the appointment will only be until the end of the administration. Then announce that she is the only person that the senate won't filibuster. Far fetched perhaps but it would be a great stand to take.

glenn - who do you think are examples of the kind of independent AG the senate should insist on?

That recent Ted Nugent moment asking Obama to "suck on" his 'machine gun' and asking Hillary to please ride his 'machine gun' into the sunset, wasn't that just him expressing his pride that the President selected him to be our nation's chief lawman?

I have been reading you for a while now and I have yet to detect a chink in your ideological armor. You never give up.

The one thing for which I have very little patience is an attachment to one's victim status, the need to insist that everything is hopeless, that the Big Bad Guys are always going to win and poor little us can do nothing about it except sit by and watch it all because everything is so unfair and we are so powerless and the Big Bad System is all rigged and stacked against us.

For one thing, this sentiment is almost always inauthentic. If the people who claim to believe this really believed it, they wouldn't be spending their time reading and commenting on poltiical blogs - what would be the point, since it's all so very, very hopeless?

Worse, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Telling everyone that nothing matters, it's all hopeless, discourages people from doign anything about it. All those geniuses who ran around in 2005 and 2006 claiming that there was no point in ever doing anything because Karl Rove had a stranglehold on the voting machines and Bush would always win (a DIFFERNET species than those who raised and raise legitimate questions about voter fraud) were everywhere when I first began blogging, and their only response to everything was: "Forget it. Rove controls the voting machines. They win."

Though I understand the temptation here - it is frustrating to watch at times- I don't understand the need to stay attached to this defeatism. Any system built by human beings can be torn down and replaced or changed by other human beings. That is just an immutable law of nature. The fact that someone hasn't yet figured out how to change something doesn't mean it can't be done.

But by convicing yourself that it's all hopeless, you actually make things easier for yourself. If everything is stacked against you and there is nothing you can do, then you no longer have the duty to try to to do anything about it. That accounts for a large part of the appeal of this pervasive defeatism.