You Know It’s Bad When

You know it is bad when Ted Stevens wont even vote for himself this election.

Although he can still run for the Senate, as a convicted felon he can’t vote.

The Impeachment Hearings

Most Americans probably are not aware the House Judiciary committee is holding fake impeachement hearings. If ever the House Democratic leadership had a bad idea this is it. They (we) are going to jawbone about all of the bad things the Bush administration has been and is doing but not do a damn thing about it. There will be no vote to impeach the President or anyone else. If ever there was an attempt to showcase the weakness of the majority party in Congress this is it. It is like going out and telling the world my dad ass rapes me every night and then at the end of the day going back home to sleep in the same house with the same old man you had before you made your announcement to the world only to be ass raped again. How pathetic! And this is the party that wants us to put them in the lead once more?

The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling

How many times are the Democrats in Congress going to be stampeded by President Bush to do the unnecessary that they really do not want to do anyhow and that we do not want them to do? Once again Bush is trying to put the Democrats over the barrel of looking like they are weak on terror by not renewing the revised FISA bill because as Bush says it will make it nearly impossible for us to monitor what the terrorists are doing. And yet nothing could be further from the truth.

The second part of this and the real stumbling block in renewing FISA is immunity for the telecom companies that supported President Bush in enabling the illegal surveillance of Americans these past 5 years. And guess what, there is already a law in place that gives the Telecoms immunity. Why do they need anything more.

NPR does a good job in reporting the facts on these controversial issues and once again points out how Bush is using his puppets in Congress to do the unnecessary.

When Wrong To Be Set Right

This past week I listened to various stories on the radio about the experiences people had as tornadoes tore apart a number of communities in their paths. One of the things that caught my attention was the oft repeated description of changes in air pressure that made peoples ears pop as a prelude to the tornadoes rushing through. In much the same way I have felt a general, non-specific yet noticeable pressure that has weighted the atmosphere since reading reports of Attorney General Mukasey’s treatment of the law in relation to the FISA and Waterboarding/torture cases to which he testified this past week. After having read the reports I felt and still feel our Constitution and our Laws are no longer in force and our Congress seems inept in finding a response. I’m still alive and life is not all too onerous but the overall feeling is that if things went south in a legal dispute who really knows how things will turn out We are no longer a nation of laws but one of brute force, “If I am in power the law is what I say it is. Period.”

Then today, in doing my daily reading, I was overwhelmed by the writings of Scott Horton at Harpers Magazine. His article, Bush Justice Department Goes After Another Democratic Lawyer (And Why This is Bad News for Yoo and Bradbury). The weight of pessimism that had permeated my feelings  about the law in this country seemed to lighten considerably. The article is brilliant. Horton drives home the point that no one is above the law even if it takes time to drive home that point. It is like reading the Alexander Dumas book The Man in the Iron Mask, you feel a weight has been lifted and justice has been done once the conclusion is reached. Horton not only exhorts this emotional release, in the process he illuminates two engrossing plots.

It is great reading give it a try!