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Just like you have done here with me.

One final point here: I wonder if you realize that the trap you attempt to declare me caught in actually is a two-sided one in which you quite likely have entrapped yourself.

Here's what I mean. If the thrust of your argument is that I've got no business criticizing Bush unless I am equally energetic in my criticism of Clinton, would it not follow that if you are criticizing Clinton you are also morally obligated to put equal energy into attacking Bush for his misdeeds?

And somehow, based on a fair amount of experience with people who respond as you have here, I really do not imagine that you pass your own test. I am willing to bet that your energy for complaining about Bush's misdeeds does not begin to measure up to how game you were to assail Clinton back when he was president.

Would I lose that bet? Seems pretty unlikely. Think of it: here you are still complaining about something you believe that Clinton did --not even involving a violation of the Constitution it would seem-- years ago, when he is no longer even in power. And not a word from you to indicate your concern with what the person who is RIGHT NOW the most powerful man in the world is doing.

You ask me, Where was I? But that just opens you up to the same question, but in a much more urgent form: Where are you?

As the conservative jurist Bruce Fein says, the Bushites are systematically lawless, and the system cannot take beatings every five or ten minutes. And so I ask you, Where are you putting your energy? Apparently into attacking those who would defend the American Constitution from the assault from a president with whom, I presume, you are in partisan alignment.

Is that where you should be? Is that really where you want to be?

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