Comments on: The Treasongate “Political Game”

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:11:34 +0000

C’mon Greg, stop crapping in our cornflakes. Justice (finally!) being served is a good thing. A really good thing. A really belated and well-deserved comeuppance to the Radical Right. We’ve been upset about this for something like two years; now is the time to celebrate that the criminals are going down.

No, it won’t be as glorious as some of us liberals are saying, but it’s a start. I think the general public (who doesn’t normally care about “non-sexy” stories like this) is starting to wake up to the Administration’s perfidy. Maybe it’s because I live in D.C., but I see a change in perception.

Let’s hope for the best, because the alternative is that no one pays for what they’ve done, and that’s downright un-American.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:53:17 +0000

Good post Greg. I’m delighted to see some concrete actions to take, and you should expand on them. If you’re delighted by the Fitzgerald indictments, you should give back by putting thirty minutes of your day into writing letters, et cetra. After all, as you point out, this is not someone with out best interests in mind, he is interested in preserving law and order. This is a gift, and we have to act while the enemy is weak.

By: nikto

nikto — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:59:05 +0000

The post is a helpful and sensible reminder
that, in spite of the hopeful giddiness on the left, this is very serious business for America (as someone else said), and October 28th will really represent only the *beginning* of a whole new stage of political and legal conflict.

We are still early in the battle (but a cluster of indictments would give hope, admittedly).

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:51:20 +0000

Look, in my mind, Fitzmas is going to be fodder for the reactionary right winge-mill. Why prove them right that it is all partisan politics (I know it isn’t but you know that’s how they already see it)? I know they will twist it that way regardless, but why give them a shred of validity? The truth will speak for itself. Why stoop to their level? This tit-for-tat is what makes people in the center steer away from the left. When was the last time you were swayed in your opinion by what was written on some wonk’s T-shirt? 9 in 10 Americans already think that there has been some wrong-doing.
It’s like that guy on the corner shouting about the end is near and the Jews and Homos are to blame for all of the worlds problems. The people standing around agreeing agreed before captain crack opened his mouth. He is preaching to the converted. Stay above the fray and let’s just trust Fitzgerald to do his job.

By: Interloper

Interloper — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:30:32 +0000

Dude, lighten the fuck up. You’re a comedian, not a policy-maker. So get over yourself, or do something else… you’re depressing.

By: Agent 99

Agent 99 — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:25:14 +0000

Maybe I’ve got time to go off, have a stroke, and recover in time to die of apoplexy a year from now. Fitzgerald just got bigger office space. He’s going for the long haul, looking for the goods on the forgeries and, can he? the Downing Street Memo/s. If we’re lucky, he’ll be getting to the heart of the matter right around midterms next year. My “Fitzmas” was a hiccup, just thinking the book was flying toward its targets. You are right. This party atmosphere is creepy. I understand it. I want to enjoy it too, but, damn, this is deadly earnest stuff.

By: Paul L.

Paul L. — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:49:18 +0000

I tend to agree with you in that going to the lengths some people are going (like making t-shirts) borders on childish.

I am going to be pretty damned smug for a while though; how can you not be when you’ve been force-fed so much crap from these blowhards for so long?

They’re wrong, they always have been and they always will be. When that fact is proven (again), I’m going to remind them of it.

I’m just not going to be wearing a party hat or t-shirt.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:05:43 +0000

I think that any pride and joy I feel in this (and I do feel some, oh yes I do) stems from the belief that this vindicates my patriotism as an American citizen. This, to me, is America at its finest–showing the corrupt and the powerful that nobody, but nobody is above the law, and that the same smear tactics, lies, and dirty tricks that sway the vox populi won’t mean squat to a federal judge. And yes, to a certain extent it’s a “Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy” syndrome, but that’s just a minor part of my joy in seeing my faith in America as a place that has limits to how much bullsh*t it will tolerate confirmed.

This is justice in action. I think everyone should be proud of that, at least.