I understand all the people who just want to move on, but this isn't about a blow job, dammit. Either we follow the rule of law or we don't, and this is showing that we don't.

The great Healer isn't doing anything of the sort; he's putting bandages on top of an infection and not doing anything else. Sooner or later that infection will come back, again, just like it did 8 years ago. How many more relapses can the U.S. withstand?

I really wish that the current U.S. attorney's office appointed by this administration had prosecuted. I think that the only way you stop such blatant criminal violations by people who know better, people who are sworn to uphold the law, (unint.) that they know they'll go to jail for breaking the law. That's what should have been done. And just because they broke the law in the Bush administration and the Bush administration did not, or deemed not to prosecute, I think that raises real questions. Prosecution should be done no matter who breaks the law. I think about one of the people who testified that same investigation and said that, uh, "we swear an oath to President George Bush." I said, "no, you swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. That constitution is the constitution you're sworn to uphold and I'm sworn to uphold and it's the constitution that reflects all Americans."...

And when somebody deliberately, purposely sets out to subvert the constitution of the United States, and then lies about it, lies about it, Mr. President, I find that a heinous crime. We will see some kid who steals a car, they'll be prosecuted as they probably should. But when you have a key member of the DoJ lie about it under oath, who subverts the consitution of the United States, all the more reason to prosecute that person. Mr. President what Mr. Schlozman did was reprehensible, it was disgusting, it was wrong, goes at the very core of America's principles...

Does this mean I can rob a bank before the Inauguration and get away with it?

as long as you're a good, conservative republican in the process.

But how is it that they'll go after baseball players for lying to Congress about steroids or whatever, yet they won't do anything to this guy?

There's some sort of sick irony in Schlozman's apparent focus on hiring attorneys whom he believed would see to the proper application of the rule of law by virtue of theor political leanings and affiliations, even as he was perverting the law to do it; maybe there will be some poetic justice if he - like Gonzales - can't find a firm that wants to hire him, but I think AG-nominee Holder needs to be asked whether he considers lying to Congress to be a prosecutable offense.  And call me crazy, but I would prefer poetic justice and irony to be elements of the novels I read, and not inherent in the daily business of the DOJ, but that's me.