The power grab by the Bush regime has resembled one thing more than any other and that one thing is a black hole, where no light can escape.
Hastert and the Republicans are fools who thought that by giving the Bush regime everything they wanted they would be spared. For their part, Pelosi and the Democrats are spineless examples of what an opposition party should not be. Together, they have allowed the group of crooks and war criminals who now run the Executive branch to run rampant over all of our rights as they shred the Constitution. Now, they are suddenly concerned. Now, that even the thin shred of legislative independence they thought had been preserved has been shown to be nothing more than an allusion.