Quote of the Day

"[T]here is no unision possible with the extreme right, they do not compromise and they will steal everything that isn't nailed down. Letting the Cheney's and Rumsfeld's (and Libby's) have a medal and a pat on the head in the interest of 'sparing the nation the scandal' (as Ford supposedly did when pardoning Richard Nixon) just means, as Digby says, that the same zombies will re-emerge and commit the same crimes again and again, or their heirs will, thinking there is no price to be paid...

...[T]here is speculation as to whether the Democrats are going to be naughty or nice in the majority. I just hope they don't wind up a bunch of co-dependent saps who give in to the GOP demands for quarter they never gave, and I most certainly hope that they do not accept the Clintonian notion of no accountability in the interest of moving forward. That's hooey.

As Digby says, it's stake-in-the-heart time for the right wing crazies and the crooks. Anything less is short-term political opportunism that shirks responsibility and endangers the future. "
--Jane Hamsher, urging Democrats not to use Ford's pardon of Nixon as the precedent in dealing with Bush administration crimes.