as far as i am concerned that is the key. we need real public inquiries into all these scandals of the last 4 years. not just a secret grand jury by a great prosecutor. the scope of the high crimes committed by this adminstration, everything from the illegal war in Iraq, the Katrina disaster, the overseas torture/gulag camps, the Halliburton and DeLay and Abramoff corruption scandals, the massive cutbacks in social programs while the Pentagon and its contractors and lobbyists got fat. and who knows what else. all of this needs to be made public. and in voluminous scope and depth! there’s enough corruption, conspiracy and criminal intent there to fill 10 front pages of the NYT every day. and keep every major committee and subcommittee in the US congress busy for the next 2-3 years.

the republican congress has totally obstructed justice up to this point, so the judicial-special counsel system has taken up some of the slack. but that’s a slow route and it’s not enough public scrutiny.

Good for you Me. I agree with you 100%.

Why do people think the Repubs are invincible or that there is nothing the people of the United States can do except answer opinion polls?

The pendulum swings. The worm turns. The Republicans are in deep trouble and we can effect change.

Ah well, need to watch the cholesterol anyway.

Depressed 3:29 Had a chuckle at the eBay comment– really, you got it! Virgin Mary toast on eBay was the inspiration.

Meanwhile, I was busy reading comments on an earlier thread and writing to support Pachacutec’s brilliant typo-coining of “credinility” (”Bush is already getting advice on how to restore his credinility…”) and to confess my indulgence in Schaudenfraude via on-line polls.

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Bush is guilty. He knows he is guilty. He was a kingpin in the conspiracy.

Now he is lying about, acting guilty. He is radiating guilt vibes.

He claims he is this strong, determined, forceful, powerful world leader… But he cannot find the inner strength to come clean and tell the truth. I doubt he ever will… But the guilt vibes are picked up by people, they can feel he is guilty even if many are not quite sure exactly what he is guilty of.

He is a haunted man.

lol, I sent my daily hate mail to the WH, the autoresponder there will copy your subject back to you… Except I use words the autoresponder takes exception to: domination, torture, oppression, murder, etc… They may automatically go into the recycle bin, but it helps me manage the anger.

Any political advisor who would have him continue that asinine campaign should have been fired months ago. Wonder if it was Rove?
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one thing i’ve read speculating how the bush agenda got so unhinged and that makes the most sense, is that karl rove knows how to run campaigns. he know nothing about governing. governing requires listening to all points of view and working out compromises. bush has done the opposite. he’s arrogant, petty, and afraid that compromise is weakness. really, he was destined to fail. the recent poll numbers show him losing major numbers of independents, no dems support him and now he’s beginning to alienate his base. it’s only been a couple of points, but that loss is starting.

one of the news reports tonite said rove remained behind to work on a new rollout plan to rescue the chimp — scheduled for sotu.

i think your karen hughes scenario is probably right on too. he doesn’t have alot of people close to him capable of doing the chief of staff job. ken mehlman, ed gillespie — oh please. karen’s more manly than those 2 combined. besides, i’m sure he’s calculating bringing in another woman in a high-profile spot.