Studs Terkel:
"Tom Paine was saying ... a commoner can tell the  royalty to bugger off ... the fact, is I can tell the president to bugger off - and that, by the way, that is being an American."

Steve Clemons: "Will someone remind our government elders that America is NOT China -- and we don't like Orwellian half-truths and big lies here."

Robert Dreyfuss: "The vice president’s staff could read the statutory NSC’s e-mail, but the NSC couldn’t read their e-mail. So, once someone on the statutory NSC figured it out, they used various work-arounds. Like, for example, they would walk to someone’s office, rather than send an e-mail, if what they were going to talk about they didn’t want to reveal to the vice president’s very powerful staff.” But that was difficult because of Cheney “spies” within the bureaucracy..."

Digby: "Therefore, I blame the Republican Party more than little Junior. He's just a pathetic loser who believed his own hype --- responsible for his actions, of course, but not the mastermind.
From his little tirade today, it appears that he's feeling like his authority is being questioned. That's just funny. It took his this long to figure out that he's not really in charge?"