Comments on: Pardon the Constitutional Dust http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=999 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:42:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: boadicea http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=999#comment-81341 boadicea Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:39:32 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=999#comment-81341 So where does the vague note of disapproval about authors wanting to sell books come from? While I consider it a good investment, the <i>Texas Observer</i> don't come over my transom for free, either. So where does the vague note of disapproval about authors wanting to sell books come from?

While I consider it a good investment, the Texas Observer don’t come over my transom for free, either.

]]> By: MeanRachel http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=999#comment-81287 MeanRachel Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:33:33 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=999#comment-81287 I was a little disappointed in the the panel and quite frankly, the audience members. Particularly when Dahlia Litwick would speak in broad, snarky terms about torture, everyone would just sort of chuckle like, "Oh, that silly administration." We should be enraged. Scahill seemed somewhat genuinely angry about...well, everything, but everyone else kind of made light of what a horribly depressing state of affairs our government is in. I also didn't feel as though there was any defined "roadmap" as advertised -- just the panelists pointing out their various complaints with the government and with Congress not holding the people in charge accountable. Aside from "We're all screwed!" I didn't really get what the take-away message was supposed to be. I was a little disappointed in the the panel and quite frankly, the audience members. Particularly when Dahlia Litwick would speak in broad, snarky terms about torture, everyone would just sort of chuckle like, “Oh, that silly administration.” We should be enraged. Scahill seemed somewhat genuinely angry about…well, everything, but everyone else kind of made light of what a horribly depressing state of affairs our government is in.

I also didn’t feel as though there was any defined “roadmap” as advertised — just the panelists pointing out their various complaints with the government and with Congress not holding the people in charge accountable. Aside from “We’re all screwed!” I didn’t really get what the take-away message was supposed to be.

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]]> By: PDiddie http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=999#comment-81251 PDiddie Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:13:53 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=999#comment-81251 Those damned once-every-four-years accountability moments. You -- or maybe it was somebody on that panel -- made a great point, Melissa: if Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi won't hold Bush accountable for anything, what do you suppose a veto-proof majority and a Democratic president can screw up in four years? Or two? They have a big to-do list waiting for them in six months, and I just don't think they can stop the wars and fix the economy if they can't even compel Karl Rove to testify. Those damned once-every-four-years accountability moments.

You — or maybe it was somebody on that panel — made a great point, Melissa: if Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi won’t hold Bush accountable for anything, what do you suppose a veto-proof majority and a Democratic president can screw up in four years? Or two?

They have a big to-do list waiting for them in six months, and I just don’t think they can stop the wars and fix the economy if they can’t even compel Karl Rove to testify.

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