Reply #10: Everyone does understand ... [View All]

That the "Noise Machine" is reaching for any straw to try to tickle our nose and distract from the main issue ... right? Right?

Someone earlier rambled on about how Congress is a co-equal branch of government and is therefore responsible for this and that and the other thing ...

As you mention, that's *exactly* the point. Congress *is* a co-equal branch of government, but during the Bush regime, it was unable to act as such, for the majority of the time because the Republicans in Congress were rolling over and allowing the Executive to act with impunity.

But now ... NOW Republicans and their little noise makers who try to pretend they aren't being partisan hacks suddenly find this notion of Congress being co-equal and all ... now that it suits their purpose.

To repeat, in the hopes it sinks in, the Noise Machine is at a full roar right now trying to push anything that even momentarily pulls the ears away from Bush/Cheney/Rice/Rumsfeld/Yoo ... etc.

I'm generally not one to get too involved in these arguments about criticism of Democrats because, frankly, some of them deserve it. But, in this case, let's PLEASE keep our eye on the ball. Pelosi is a very small fish in this ocean, even if she did have the power to do anything at all. (And I can't quite imagine what that was.)