Jon Carroll [Hey, You Raided A Politician!]

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/5/6 | Jon Carroll

[SmithL]

This is so great. The Congress of the United States, which has cheerfully given President Bush essentially everything he's asked for in his extensions of executive power, has condoned or at least not condemned illegal wiretaps, illegal detentions, torture, violations of the Geneva Conventions and essentially any other action the government wants to take against American citizens it thinks might be somehow, maybe connected with someone who may be connected with someone who knew someone who once went to Pakistan or some country that sounds like Pakistan -- that Congress is now upset because some FBI agents raided the offices of Rep. William Jefferson, an apparently corrupt Louisiana Democrat.

A corrupt Louisiana politician -- what are the odds?

President Bush became so alarmed by this unexpected challenge to his monarchy that he called for a 45-day cooling-off period.

[SmithL]

Carroll's columns rarely have real headlines, so I created one from the SFGate link to the column.

[SouthTexas]

Pretty good rant coming from the left coast.

[lepton]

has condoned or at least not condemned illegal wiretaps, illegal detentions, torture, violations of the Geneva Conventions

How do people believe these things? I mean aside from altering definitions of the words and having no idea of the law or the Geneva Conventions...