i'm not the one obsessed with the telecom immunity issue.  I just find it amusing that other people can be so obsessed with it, when it means absolutely nothing without a threat to impeach or prosecute.

Since "smart" people like you seem to scorn the idea, why don't you tell me why I should care about telecom amnesty?

Also, you intend to follow me into every diary I write to shit in the pond?  Insecure much?

this close to the election, but it already should have, if we were a country that followed the rule of law and used the Constitution as intended.  Why it seems so funny to otherwise intelligent people baffles me.

I certainly haven't been an impeachment advocate, but the current speculation is that telecom amnesty is so important to the Bush administration because it would eliminate the need for a "discovery phase" at which misdeeds of the Bush administration would come to light.

The difficulty is, we already know of a crapload of egregious misdeeds of the Bush administration, and nothing has been done to punish the perpetrators.

At this point, the only thing we're fighting over is precedent for future administrations.  That's a small victory, indeed.

isn't it bad form for frontpagers who speak for the site to troll an individual author just because they had a dispute in that author's previous diary?

... and Cheney right up to Inauguration Day.

And we shouldn't stop talking about it thereafter.