I found this interesting. Gonzales getting pummeled at a Senate hearing on his involvement in the U.S. Attorney scandals, by none other than Republican Arlen Specter. Granted Specter is really more of an independent or a Democrat at this point, he’s a traditional Republican in the truest sense, which shows you how far to the right the Republicans have gone.

Gonzales is trying to defend his position that charges members of the Bush Administration for leaning on numerous U.S. attorneys to act in the interest of political campaigns, including to drum up investigations against Democrats and to pull attorneys working on rape and murder cases to satisfy an illegal immigration Republican running in Southern California.

Here is a time line.

This is abuse of power if I’ve ever seen it. It is not unethical to fire attorneys because they are not doing their jobs, but to fire them because they are not helping Republicans get elected is not just a misuse of government resources, it sets a frightening precedent. If they use the U.S. attorneys for strictly partisan political ends, then how else will they use the law to further their cause? Where will it end?

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I’m a believer in the right to bare arms to a certain degree, and I understand why so many Americans want to defend that right. However, isn’t it just plain common sense to prevent guys like Cho, with a mental record and several police disturbances, from getting weapons so easily?

I mean come on, if we believe that guns don’t kill people, people kill people, then protecting the rights of gun owners is dependent on keeping people who kill people from getting guns.

You’ve seen him, I’m sure, but take a look again. Look into his eyes. Should this guy be allowed to own a gun? Should he be allowed to buy so many bullets so easily? Should he have been allowed to purchase multiple guns?

While this country wipes the tears from its brow from what is now being called the worst mass-shooting in U.S. history, I want to take a moment to share my grief as well as point out a few things I’ve noticed.

The nation seems almost dumbfounded by this latest catastrophe. Living in a docile state of severe confusion, trying to reconcile this absolutely pointless and horrible act with the increasing levels of violence that are surrounding us. What’s worse, this shooting spree was not a wake up call or a warning or anything that can be turned positive. It is an awful tragedy that claimed 32 lives because a mentally unstable South Korean student couldn’t find content in his life and blamed it on rich kids.

Is it fair that one distressed boy can take out his anger on more than 50 people? Of course not. This time however, there is no one to blame. The killer is gone, no justice will be dealt. All we are left with is hurt, sorrow and confusion.

The politicians jumped into the ring as usual. President Bush is of course at the forefront. Presidents often make political capital …

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

The Bush regime is so crooked, so backward, so prone to elitism that they can’t even stay out of trouble in places where its almost impossible to get into trouble.

Paul “the Where?” Wolfowitz is now caught in a scandal where he funneled a plush job and unjustifiable massive raises to a secret, Libyan-born lover. Sounds juicy doesn’t it?

Paul Wolfowitz was given the position of President of the World Bank as a thank you gift. A thank you for all the hard work he did to get this country to invade Iraq, but also a strategic maneuver. A Now that you’ve become a lightening rod, please take this well regarded, but quiet and out of the way, esteemed position where you can play with the lives of third world countries at your political will type of maneuver. Since Americans don’t care about the World Bank, it is supposed to be a quiet place where disgraced leaders, like Vietnam era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, can go to catch some R&R and even do some good in the world like combating the spread of diseases, a place to regain one’s lost soul.

Yet the werewolf …

Yes it is true, I have actually decided to write a new article here at Soapblox. It has been a long time coming, and I have had many planned articles, yet somehow, a brief hiatus turned into near cancellation. Well I suppose in the long run it was for the best. I needed some time away from the whole political scene as looking down the tunnel of our future light seems very far from vision.

They thought the party would never end.

Looking back on the 9 months of away time I’ve spent, a lot has changed in my own life, and in the hallowed halls of Washington D.C. President Bush’s rock star rise was met with the inevitable rock star fall, and ever since the great election of 2006, the pendulum of political momentum has begun a might swing in the opposite direction.

The Republicans in their late days of power had all …