The only scandal it has been able to generate is the GOP's handling of it.

WHERE the fuck is Feingold during all of this???????????????

just deal with that.

The Democratic party needs to widen its spectrum to the Left or get out of the way, now!

of the reasons that is best is because some people don't give an elephant crap about anyone else's reasons, so it can be a waste of time and effort.

Maybe one of the things that is wrong with our culture, is the fact that people appear to have forgotten how to try to at least hypothetically answer their own questions. This makes us dependent upon others to do our thinking for us and defines our roles as parrots or factional robots wearing whatever the current label-fad is.

For example, that's how we end up in Oil Wars killing INNOCENT people who didn't have WMD.

a certain faction worked its butt off on this board to keep Kerry where he was.

If you'd like to know more about that, I hope you have or will first, like all honest rationalists, entertain the notion that you could be wrong and there just might be some missing essential piece(s) of information that you don't know (and please don't make that about me, when you also don't know the slightest thing about whether I have fulfilled my responsibilities in that regard and, btw . . . if you expect respect for your own understandings, my rational responsibilities are not your PRIMARY responsibilities, in the first place). Hence, I suggest a rational approach to your questions that begins as do all honest rationalists do, by recognizing the possibility of being incorrect, and seeking additional information that meet your needs as you have identified them in the recognition of just how likely it is that you could be wrong. Advance search on this board is a good place to look for DIFFERENT orientations on topics.

I'm not here to do that for you and neither am I REQUIRED, especially in this anonymous environment, to respect those who do not respect themselves or me enough to bring something more than oversimplifications to the table, especially when they won't/can't admit, as I do, the fact/degree of the possibility of their own errors in the matter, so any attempt I make would be wasted effort for something that it is best that you do for yourself anyway and that is . . .

Form an honest alternative hypothesis and test it yourself, "lather, rinse, repeat".

FOUR!!!! fingers.

open." And you've been going on and on and on and on about I-don't-even-know-what. Do you think I'm wrong in what I said? That they DIDN'T want Kerry to be nominated (and then easily confirmed) so that his now-open seat could perhaps be filled by a Republican (say, Scott Brown)?

Do it in wartime, the better to underscore how nakedly unpatriotic and morally vacant the GOP has become.

Because that's what Republicans are now, as they have always been, racist, obstructionist, dishonest to the core, and greedy beyond description.

Better to let them practice such malevolent behavior upon their own.

By doing so, the delay and obstruction actually concentrates much more power in the hands of the Commander-in-Chief, who assumes some of the empty cabinet position's authority.

When the President starts personally carving out programs, operations, and systems within the Department of Defense, under his own authority, don't come crying to us, you stupid, small-minded savages. You created this opportunity.

McCain and Graham sound like they organized it