Early in the Bush administration, the President "joked" that his job would be easier if he were a dictator. We thought he was joking, he must have been joking. Little did we know that the VP had already assured him that he could provide "legal" opinions that would grant him just such powers. Secret meetings, "executive privilege", secret service logs, "unitary executive",

records retention laws, "we'll just "lose" them. Non-compliant US attorneys, "we hired them, we can fire them for any or no reason".

And the beat goes on. By the way, are any of above mentioned in constitution? Only a political hypocrite could claim a "textual" interpretation of the constitution allows this usurpation of powers.

And the Federalists...a discredited political philosophy that was rapidly replaced by the constitution!!!

Holding my breath.

Err..no it doesn't. That's your RW bogeyman alarm going off unchecked again

Myself noticed the trend last week, prior to Arne pointing it out.

Absolutely. Despite all the protestations to the contrary, it's obvious that most people here who take Glenn's side are absolutely batshit tree-fucking mad, and you can call me Susan if isn't so.

Maybe "most"... but I'm certain Myself can beat you in any argument where you defend the Republicans and I defend conservative principles. Or even American principles.

Or even basic decency that doesn't count civilian life as collateral.

You have chosen the losing side in the cosmic sense, in the human sense. Fundamental contradictions are no base to launch a political revolution from. Heed, neocon.

Or indeed, try to tutor an internet dwelling smarty-pants in how to use the correct indefinite article.

Dr. Susan:

Plz explain how the much, much higher real tax rate you pay due to Republican policies can be "lower tax" when spending has increased.

Answers that do not include the phrase "nominal tax rate" receive Zeno credits.

"unripe" is the word, TJ my whole life has frustrated me with the true heights of political thought he reached, so contrary to his personal life... i could make a shakspeer-like academicareer out of untwining his psycho-logical contrapunctions, a Thomist 4 eels.

well the spear-shakers of the big new con evolved their ritual to hide their quaking quisling hands... they's jes' jeffin' fer sure, neo-polizei-stadt gadt nuttin on ol Thom or me: we're jes' so hon-er-y.

so who. are. we.

and how, boydy-how-boydy, do we want to be governed.

"Might as well try to tutor an tick in nuclear physics."

Or indeed, try to tutor an internet dwelling smarty-pants in how to use the correct indefinite article.

If this is factual, McCain as hero and patriot and maverick, etc., as an enormous fraud.

-“McCain had a unique POW experience. Initially, he was taken to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was interrogated. By McCain’s own account, after three or four days he cracked. He promised his Vietnamese captors, “I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital ...

“His Vietnamese captors soon realized their POW, John Sidney McCain III, came from a well-bred line in the American military elite. . .The Vietnamese realized, this poor stooge has propaganda value. The admiral’s boy was used to special treatment, and his captors knew that. They were working him.”

“. . .two weeks into his stay at the Vietnamese hospital, the Hanoi press began quoting him. It was not ‘name rank and serial number, or kill me’. as specified by the military code of conduct. McCain divulged specific military information: he gave the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, the number of U.S. pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight formation, as well as information about the location of rescue ships.”

“…McCain was held for five and half years. The first two weeks’ behavior might have been pragmatism, but McCain soon became North Vietnam’s go-to collaborator…..McCain cooperated with the North Vietnamese for a period of three years. His situation isn’t as innocuous as that of the French barber who cuts the hair of the German occupier. McCain was repaying his captors for their kindness and mercy.-

http://tiny.cc/tYodr

LWM is rolled up in a blanket pretending he's a pancake already? A blintz.

Off-Topic. Prunes. I bought a bottle of %100 Sunsweet brand Prune Juice.

I hope none get rolled by a police state. We'd get as flat and pretty as a blintz.

If McCain becomes a commander-in-chief cook, we best get a new credit card.

I ain't sure. Stay here to oppose tyranny is the best. Visit Nova Scotia for chowder.

Despite all the protestations to the contrary, it's obvious that most people here who take Glenn's side are absolutely batshit tree-fucking mad, and you can call me Susan if isn't so.

Very well, Susan. It isn't so, and you'd have to be absolutely bat-shite tree-humping looney to think otherwise.

But then, that's the problem with our reality-based community: we can't really relate to the fantasy-based lives your lot exist in. No common frames of reference, you see. Might as well try to tutor an tick in nuclear physics.

I accept your point. Many people will be dancing in the streets if Obama is anointed King in Gondor, and I won't be one of them. I'll be watching for signs---watching him, and watching others, because the game won't be over.

Yet there must be some middle ground. First, I don't think not voting accomplishes anything at all. Second, if large chunks of the population choose not to vote, I'd expect that to be a symptom of a drop-out ("neutralized") attitude, not a commitment to more revolutionary revolution. So I'd ask, are we talking about not voting as an individual moral choice, or as a broad strategy?

Also, according to what I gather of your theory, what we need most is to be left with no options---perhaps for Obama to be assassinated, or McCain to win, or for the economy to truly and utterly collapse, or for the Worm to rule for 5000 years. Yes, those things will piss people off more and maybe to the point of serious action. I've said much the same thing right here.

But why can't we hope or work for these things or for some other truly revolutionary positive change AND vote for Obama or an acceptable write-in candidate, if he/she is the least of all available evils in the voting booth?