On ...fuck, I give up...

[seanorange]

Back in 2004, when he was still a White House counsel and really had no business in the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andy Card decided it would be a good idea to talk shop with John Ashcroft -- doped up and incapacitated from gallbladder surgery as he was. Then Deputy Attorney General Comey described the episode an

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[world_rim_walke]

In my limited years of observing this country, I've never seen an administration so corrupt. Why didn't they start impeaching him when it came out that all W's reasons for going into Iraq were wrong? Aren't presidents not supposed to lie ever?

I also heard that he's threatening to order people to not respond to congressional supeonas.

Why aren't people outraged about this?

[seanorange]

Oh man, people are SO outraged, but there's a lot of "what can we do?" going about

[world_rim_walke]

... and if congress doesn't do anything... I think we should start a massive "no confidence vote" for our entire government. Scrap the entire thing.

I realize this is impractical, but if it doesn't work, what else are we to do?

Don't worry about giving me too much information. It's okay.

[seanorange]

That's what people claim to be doing when they brag about how they don't vote, but all that does is give the crazy vocal minority schools of thought more power to get their candidates through. I've also heard people explaining that neither option can ever be good, so they don't want to be responsible for putting a criminal into office (oooookay...). I've also heard that some people feel the best way to vote is to buy stuff and let the lobbies duke it out -- which to me just sounds like willful participation in corruption of public officials dressed up like non-participation