We understand.

I've given up predicting what it will take. From what I know of history I find it hard to avoid the conclusion that an impeachable offense is whatever half of the House and two-thirds of the Senate says it is.

I'm still an idealist, I still have hope, but I have been watching and observing these last several years. The teflon-coated hubris of this administration has remained unscathed.

Oh, definitely, public opinion has plummetted, but what does this administration care about public opinion?

BTW, even if this administration were to tumble, I would be relieved but hardly joyful. This last 6 years has been a travesty, with lives many lives lost unnecessarily (remember the troops, Mr. President?), many careers destroyed, and much faith in government lost. Not my idea of a celebration opportunity.

But I too fear that this administration will continue to slime its way to the end.

I wonder.

I know.

Duct tape.  It's got to be duct tape.

My ex used duct tape all the time, for every imaginable construction or repair purpose.  And he was a lot like Bush.

that maybe this one is going to play differently in Peoria. For one thing, the media after a slow start, is finally onboard with this. It's the kind of investigative reporting that shot Woodward/Bernstein to rock stardom in the journalist world. Yesterday, GS on This Week asked his panel--Will, Brazile, Carney and Shipman--who thought Gonzales would still be AG in another month. Nobody raised their hand. Also, Americans are paying attention. Over fifty percent think it stinks. And at least three of these D.A.'s firings leave trails to obstruction of justice charges.

But the biggest point in our favor is that the Dems are heading up the panels. When Congress evades its responsibility to watchdog the executive and the judiciary branches, corruption runs rampant. There's a new sheriff in twon.

It's one thing to parade the Big Lie, send us to war with random brown people, waste unimaginable trillions, and get all fascist on our liberties, but focus on one scandal of payola-buying a boat for $140,000?

Folks know what they could do with $140,000.

more like slime in the way that this stuff just seems to ooze off of them.  First we thought that the failure to fine WMD would cripple them, then the Plame-Wilson leak and the Fitzgerald thing, but even thought everyone knows they are culpable, they still stay on to infect the planet. I just shake my head in shock and awe at the way that the Republican enablers just rationalize the administration's slimey deeds as positive events.  They are literally without shame or conscience.  

but they don't fall down. However, once you get them into the trash compactor there's not really much left of them.

Every time this crew out unitaries itself it seems like this one might be the one, and never is. Well, it looks like more and more Republicans are starting to see that Lam-as-Cox is actually reality rather than hyperbole. And truly, that's what really matters. What will make this a perfect storm scandal is seventeen Republican Senators willing to vote to convict on impeachment, and nothing less.

Honestly, I think we're inching closer every day. Some of them understand that anything less, even resignation, will leave their brand so thoroughly stained as to be unsuitable for wear for generations.