Holding the Government Accountable - Both Parties

Check this out. It's a transcript of a "debate" between Markos Moulitas (of DailyKos fame) and Harold Ford, chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. Markos ("Kos") repeatedly attacks the Democrats, and their policy and debate tactics, which he sees a little different that the Republicans. I have been saying this for as long as this blog has existed - Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same. This is why I like sites like DailyKos. Many other sites around the Internet seem to be about principles - until the controlling party changes - and we find that there are merely pundits. A stellar example of this is Jonah Goldberg. Throughout the Clinton administration, Goldberg continually, and sometimes comically, pointed out all of the abuses of power that the Clintons were party to - and I agreed with many of his points (I wasn't privy to this type of info, which would surely have tipped me off to my next point...). When a Republican president was elected, however, he somehow became blind to similar abuses being perpetrated by his favored party. In this way, Goldberg has reduced himself from "analyst" to "pundit". He is now simply an Orwellian bleating sheep, with about as much credibility and objectivity as Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Goldberg is smarter than that, but seems to have no inclination to be anything other than a Republican party stool. That's how one can write stuff like this: We obviously need rules for dealing with people we capture, which is precisely what the Bush administration has been trying to establish. But saying that we should treat terrorists like criminals is to argue for doing less than nothing. "Less" than nothing?? He and his wife have surely bought into the party line... How else could someone write speeches for Alberto Gonzalez?