Shameful Moments In American History
(by no means an exhaustive list)

--Mexican-American War

--Wounded Knee

--Plessy v. Ferguson

--"Bull" Connor turns police dogs on children

--Gulf of Tonkin "Incident" and Resolution

--Watergate/Nixon resignation

--Reagan elected

--Reagan re-elected

--Congressional hearings and impeachment over oral sex

--Bush v. Gore

--2003 State of the Union speech

And, most recently,

--Bush and Cheney's Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy act today

Truly, truly shameful. Not only did the President refuse to appear alone, he also refused to appear under oath; in addition, the Administration demanded that the session not be recorded, and that no stenographic records be kept.

Then there's this:

"It was Bush who responded to most of the questions, officials said. Cheney spoke only when Bush turned to him about details he didn't know, according to one participant."

Yet Bush himself, later in the very same report, says:

"[Bush] said Cheney 'answered a lot of their questions.'"

If you choose to believe the first quote, what could the VP know that Bush would not? I mean, would that sentence be acceptable for any other President in the last century? Okay, maybe Warren G. Harding. But any others?

Jeez.