You don’t promote or recommend Pony Parties.  They are starboard side Open Threads.

You should read dday on digby, and click all the links.

No matter how many times John Yoo and David Addington try to rewrite the plain reading of the Constitution, what has been done in America’s name violates federal law, international treaties and war crimes statutes.

In a just world, as Jerrold Nadler said yesterday, Bush and Cheney would be impeached.

But this goes well beyond removal from office.

This is about indictment for murder and war crimes, by definition.

In case you were wondering, however, here is the official Village pronouncement about what we should do with the fact that our leaders, in a complete breakdown of the rule of law, have tortured, detained without charges, and murdered:

Dark deeds have been conducted in the name of the United States government in recent years: the gruesome, late-night circus at Abu Ghraib, the beating to death of captives in Afghanistan, and the officially sanctioned waterboarding and brutalization of high-value Qaeda prisoners. Now demands are growing for senior administration officials to be held accountable and punished. Congressional liberals, human-rights groups and other activists are urging a criminal investigation into high-level “war crimes,” including the Bush administration’s approval of interrogation methods considered by many to be torture. It’s a bad idea. In fact, President George W. Bush ought to pardon any official from cabinet secretary on down who might plausibly face prosecution for interrogation methods approved by administration lawyers.

Update: Reload your Ajax folks, using Shift Control R, because I was dead in the damn water for half an hour.

I can hardly expect you to respond, but as far as I can determine comments are turned off at this point across the whole blog.

I hope the situation is resolved soon, but I’ve already run around in circles with my hair on fire so there’s not a lot more I can do.

At least I won’t have to listen to your whining- NO COMMENTS DUH!

You see…

Glenn Greenwald is just too radical and left wing for respectable bloggers to support-

All of this highlights the central political dilemma in the U.S.

The Bush-led Republican Party, marching in virtual lockstep, has been the author of the radicalism, extremism and lawlessness of the last seven years, presiding over an endlessly expanding Surveillance State and accompanying war-making machine, and the dismantling of numerous core Constitutional principles.

While numerous individual elected Democrats have opposed many of these measures, the Democratic Party’s leadership, and the Party collectively, has done nothing to stop it and much to support and enable all of it.

As the 2006 election and these subsequent events conclusively demonstrate, mindlessly supporting and electing more Democrats for its own sake doesn’t solve or even mitigate anything.

But it’s also true that actions which result in handing Republicans control over any branches of the Government — including supporting third-party candidates or abstaining from the process altogether — makes matters worse still.

Nobody who finds the above-documented events objectionable can rationally embrace a course of action that directly or indirectly empowers those who are the prime forces behind these events: namely, the mainstream GOP in its current incarnation.

All of that, in turn, leads to this pressing question: what is the best course for those who want to battle against these civil-liberties-destroying, rule-of-law-trampling, war-making policies that the GOP leadership pushes and the Democratic Party leadership supports, enables, and/or passively accepts?

In a two-party system where blind support for either party will do nothing but perpetuate these policies, how can they be undermined?