Reply #16: The scariest part of all this...

[garthranzz]

If someone who could resist torture by the Vietnamese for six years caves into the pressure/torture (can you say Abu Gitmo?) of ShrubRoveCheney, we are truly entering the era of Big Brother. McCain used to be a man of integrity, someone you could respect even if you disagreed with him. He's clearly pandering to the Republican "right" now, hoping for a presidential nomination he'll never get. G-d only knows what they did to make him step in line.

Does anyone else see an unraveling as power consolidates? Nixon, the pursuit of Clinton, Bush - seems rather cosmologic by analogy - as the black hole pulls all matter to it, everything not caught in the vortex is flung outward, explosively.