This is the most bizarre feeling. I don't know whether to be relieved or cry.

[Pacifist Patriot]

We've had over six years of criminal conspiracy and constitutional shredding from the executive branch. I can't count the number of times I thought, "This is it, they're going down!" And this doesn't even touch the previous decades of GOP hijaking of public debate.

So here I sit watching this DOJ / Federal Prosecutor scandal unravel at breathtaking speed, relatively speaking. I don't know if I should have any sort of confidence that this will eventually be what brings the dictatorial danger of this administration into full focus or if this too shall pass.

And if it does result in their downfall, it's actually quite maddening. Given the lives that have been lost all over the world it's practically an insult that firing some of their own is what finally moves them from the frying pan into the fire.

I really just don't know what to think.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. AL Capone Went Down on Tax Evasion

I'll take anything that gets these scum out of office.

[IWantAChange]

2. maybe we should concentrate on the possibility that the 'system' still works??

You aren't alone PPatriot - many of us share that in-between nausea/euphoria feeling I bet.

[Straight Shooter]

3. The bush administration really got caught flat-footed on this one.

Be hopeful. This attorney-purge scandal has caught them by surprise. They simply are not coordinated in their defense, and even the GOP leaders are reticent to support them.

Yes, it's maddening if this is what brings down the house of cards, but Karma works in mysterious ways. ;)

[vanboggie]

4. If it makes you feel any better

I am having the same thoughts. BUT, we've come a long way. The time for the Cabal to be taken down is getting closer. It has to happen - their tangled web of crimes has to unravel one of these days.

[soothsayer]

5. don't count your chickens, but I'm cautiously optimistic myself

[gasperc]

6. face it, you fucked up, you trusted us" animal house

troops in harm's way, national security they were clever covers while they looted the treasury, dismantled social security and medicare, and tried to make the big stretch and cement a republican majority by using the DA offices and the FBI.

they got Al Capone on tax evasion, if they get Rove and Bush on jaywalking, I'm happy as long as they get them

[tridim]

7. We'll certainly need a "People's articles of impeachment" if this takes them down

At this point I just want them gone. Don't care how, I want it now!

[HockeyMom]

8. I feel very sad for the troops

to have to die and be maimed because of the lies of this corrupt White House.

Maybe we bring them all home very soon, including my daughter's childhood best friend.

[niyad]

9. at this point, I almost don't care WHAT brings them down, as long as they go DOWN

[Blue_In_AK]

12. I said those very words to my husband this morning...

thinking particularly of Gonzales who should have gone down for his torture memos, but if he goes down because he fired the wrong people -- and especially if he brings Rove, etc. down with him -- I say it's all good.

[Jade Fox]

10. Well put....

A lot of us are having similar feelings.

I thought the GOP would have long since instigated impeachment proceedings against Bush themselves, for the sake of minimizing his damage to the Republican Party. Now it's clear they will never cut him loose. It seems the one thing the GOP got from Watergate was to Never Give In. You'd think they might have learned a little about the dangers of corruption, but instead that ass-kicking gave birth to the super-corrupt, power-hungry, fascists wannabees the Neocons. The virtues of fair play are apparently lost on a great number of Conservatives. They must believe they cannot win fairly, as I believe David Brock confirmed in his book "Blinded by the Right".

That this DOJ scandal may bring Bushco down is not surprising in some ways. It is an all-Republican scandal, with no collusion on the part of Democrats (like Iraq), and that makes it cleaner. It's smallness also makes it easier for people to grasp and see clearly the wrong-doing; that is harder with larger, more complex issues.

[southerncrone]

11. Remember, it is often the 10 cent part that brings down great machines.

That analogy can work w/human constructs as well.

We are all suspect because they have blatantly abused the world for so long w/o any punishment or repercussions. Six years of this has made us all numb; it is a form of mind-control in reverse.

But we must think positively. Our thoughts do have power.

The protests in the streets are becoming larger & more frequent. This has not gone unnoticed. They do fear us when we are united. That is why the spend so much time trying to keep us divided.

BELIEVE!

:dem:

[The Stranger]

13. Let's see how many times we thought this:

1. Abu Ghraib torture pictures;

2. Guantanamo torture leaks;

3. Abramhoff scandal;

4. Plamegate scandal;

5. NSA domestic spying scandal;

6. AIPAC scandal;

7. Libby conviction;

8. Known forgery exposed regarding the Niger "Yellowcake".

Feel free to add to the list.

All of it -- buried by the media.

[helderheid]

14. 8. Katrina 9. Downing Street Memo

[cassiepriam]

15. Nothing may bring them down. They just may not be elected in '08.

That is the best we can hope for.
They are very very clever and very very dangerous.
They will not go down.

[Jonathan50]

16. It's the Democrat's fault..

They let Iran Contra slide "for the good of the nation" and the Republicans learned the lesson that they could get away with anything.

Notice how often you hear of Clinton's pardon of Mark Rich.

How often do you hear of GHW Bush preemptively pardoning Cap Weinberger in order to save his own skin?