Style could be improved a lot, but there are a lot of facts from a lot of different sources.

Another "Aint it awful" story... A long list of transgressions by our government and a complaint that Democrats haven't acted vigorously to correct or punish them. More of a compilation than a news story.

It is like we have been victims to the strategy of boiling the frog, the temperature of the deathly pot has been raised continually over a long period of time, and the frogettful congress has stayed in the pot as if enjoying a warm coffin for liberty. This article is an excellent recounting of the many crimes and flagrant violations of the constitution and rule of law; alarming enough that the people need to throw the frogs out of the slumbering pot and insist that they join the frogs who have stayed outside the pot and insist on impeachment and criminal charges.

I believe that all these reported happenings happened. All partisans and pundits will poo-poo all facts. I think we have sat by and done nothing to stop the Bush administration from marching this country into disasters. Do we expect the next generations to restore what we allowed to be killed? Once a Democracy allows a Dictatorship to be born, there is generally a long hard road to be traveled to regain lost ground. Restoring rights is often harder than getting rights in the first place. We should all look in the mirror and see the shadow of a clone of Germany, Italy or Japan, peoples who sat quietly and allowed their countries to be led off a cliff.

This story shows one of the few true strengths of the blogworld. Claims made, claims justified with original documents and links to other parts of the story. Excellent! One might carp on the sources but if you take a representative sampling of any one, you will easily access any information on it you might desire.

It's quite obvious that the author is certifiable. He suffers from what appear to be paranoid delusions. In cases like this there is not much point in refuting his arguments. Evidently he believes that the democrats are in on the conspiracy. No doubt he believes that everyone who does not agree is corrupt or a conspirator. This makes his world a closed, sort of logical, system.

The author gives a long list of complaints, but they are trivial compared to the "crimes" of FDR, Wilson and Lincoln. No doubt he would have had them impeached. It would be nice if he would say so. Then the piece would at least be honest and show that the author knows a little about American history. Poor journalism.

I read The Smirking Chimp a lot and it is definitely liberal biased. The thing that makes this article more newsworthy is that it catalogs a litany of known and generally accepted infractions by the Bush regime. One of the problems with Bush is that he commits so many crimes and infractions that people tend to forget the earlier ones. I also think it is unfair to compare Bush to FDR. FDR was intelligent, articulate and initiated great social reform in a time of great uncertainty. FDR was a champion of the poor while Bush is a champion of corporations.