goofballs

http://www.salon.com/opinion/ greenwald/2008/07/19/law/ index.html Blanket criminal immunity will be granted before President Bush leaves office, not that it is needed because Democrats in Congress are too spineless to pursue investigations of lawbreakers in government and big business. Record numbers of Americans are imprisoned daily for non-violent offenses, but to enforce the laws of the land on government officials is politically verboten -- especially against the President; to paraphrase Richard M Nixon, "if the president does it, it's not illegal." It may never be known why Senator Obama voted for the FISA bill, forever closing the doors on any accountability for lawbreaking by officials and businesses. My theory is that the DLC, party leadership, wheelers, and dealers in the Democratic Party extorted the vote out of Obama by threatening less than enthusiastic support should their own duplicity come to light. Warrantless wiretapping, the fraudulent causus belli , an...