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“Our representatives — and to a great degree we as a culture — are completely buffaloed by shamelessness.”

“Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit’s stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.”

Wow, watching Keith Olbermann’s special comment tonight [“Are YOURS the actions of a true American?”] <deep breath> I felt for the first time in years <hairs standing on end> that the nuclear warhead of truth has finally been detonated inside the alien mothership.

What happens next is the slow-motion annihilation of this ship of death, its fiery chunks falling to earth, the sun washing the sky of its brooding malevolence, and just in the nick of time.

On the one hand, after year upon grinding year, saying this out loud now sounds like unwarranted hope. OTOH what I experienced during this comment I experienced viscerally, and to me an unconscious whole-body response like this reveals more has happened than just words being spoken.

“Apparently, Bush does not realize that to lead he must continually renew his approval with the public. He is not, as he thinks, the decider. The public is the decider.”

“Finding out you fell in love with Lex Luthor and not Superman is very disheartening.”

“A senior White House official has denied that the US president, George Bush, said God ordered him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.”

“Setting the goal of energy independence, along with a gasoline tax, could help to solve so many of our problems today — from the deficit to climate change and national security.”

“What Americans are finally catching onto is the utter incompetence of this crowd. And if we didn’t know before, we’re learning now, in the harshest possible ways, that incompetence has bitter consequences.”

“The president is Lucy, and he’s holding a football. We’re Charlie Brown. …”

“Apparently [the extent of this investigation] is finally beginning to dawn on Mr. Bush’s fiercest defenders and on Mr. Bush himself.”