Olbermann: Where are the checks, balances?

[Patsy Stone]

Bush has been 'making it up' for too long, and the people have let him

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15595139/

We are, as every generation, inseparable from our own time.

Thus is our perspective, inevitably that of the explorer looking into the wrong end of the telescope.

But even accounting for our myopia, it’s hard to imagine there have been many elections more important than this one, certainly not in non-presidential years.

And so we look at the verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein yesterday, and, with the very phrase “October, or November, Surprise” now a part of our vernacular, and the chest-thumping coming from so many of the Republican campaigners today, each of us must wonder about the convenience of the timing of his conviction and sentencing.

But let us give history and coincidence the benefit of the doubt—let’s say it’s just “happened” that way—and for a moment not look into the wrong end of the telescope.

[babylonsister]

1. I 'heart' KO! What a man! nt

[Patsy Stone]

3. I hope these continue...

Even with the Dems in control, there will still be plenty of insanity as long as these people are in my White House.

:hi:, Sis!

[babylonsister]

6. A night without KO

would be terrible. :hi: Patsy! I'm excited for tomorrow! And a bit nervous.

[Patsy Stone]

9. I'm a little nauseous...

I hope tomorrow night I feel like feasting.

[babylonsister]

15. Do you think your favorite forum will

see some action? I may hang out there after pollwatching, if I can get in!

[Patsy Stone]

16. Right?

I'll be out poll watching too, but I'll check in if it's not DefCon 5.

[bdamomma]

2. Take Keith's last comment

VOTE.

[Martin Eden]

4. Bush is unchecked and unbalanced

I loved that double entendre'

[Patsy Stone]

7. I loved this:

Mr. President, there is no other conclusion we can draw as we go to the polls tomorrow.

Sir, you have been making this up as you went along.

This country was founded to prevent anybody from making it up as they went along.

Those vaunted Founding Fathers of ours have been so quoted up, that they appear as marble statues: like the chiseled guards of China, or the faces on Mount Rushmore. But in fact they were practical people and the thing they obviously feared most was a government of men and not laws.

They provided the checks and balances for a reason.

[tinfoil tiaras]

5. i *heartheart* Keith Olbermann

:loveya:

He's like Gregory Peck, but as a news anchor. Gorgeous and smart... *swoon*

[Patsy Stone]

12. With that attitude

and the REM picture in your sig, you simply must visit us in the Countdown Group. Follow the link in my signature.

:hi:

[tinfoil tiaras]

13. im there right now!

thanks for inviting me! :D :hi:

[SaneInSC]

8. Absolutely

On the money, as usual.

[indepat]

10. Keith, the 'puke Congress has decided to let the decider decide all, so checks and

balances no longer have meaning.

[EstimatedProphet]

11. That was a fantastic commentary

Keith looked more tired and disgusted than anything else though

[understandinglife]

14. Recommended. Thank you, Keith Olbermann, once again.

Never Forget: George W. Bush willfully violated National Security to cover-up his willful launch of a war of aggression and illegal occupation of Iraq .... and, now he willfully provided nuke-making instructions to terrorists -- if you doubt it, just check 'the google' .... and LIEberman enabled him every step of the way ....

[karlrschneider]

17. What a guy. Why, oh why are there so few like him?

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

[malaise]

18. Thanks KO

Great commentary.