This is what happens when I drink the wrong brand of coffee, which I did this morning.

Anyway, cheers for what Glynn has helped bring about in the Siegelman case.

Don Siegelman’s political imprisonment – and that’s what he is suffering through – is another glaring indictment of the “imperial presidency.”

Although Bush is an egregious executive violator of the Bill of Rights in quite awhile, he joins a notorious little club which includes Franklin Roosevelt who put thousands of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps, Woodrow Wilson who jailed dissidents opposed to World War II, and of course Dick Nixon.

Siegelman is a victim of a system which now gives virtually autocratic power to the president, an office intended to be far, far less important and in fact, intended to be less powerful than Congress by the framers of the Constitution.

Don deserves an immediate, complete and full pardon – actually, he deserves another day in court so that his conviction can be reversed as a horrible miscarriage of justice, courtesy Bush and Gonzales.

Now I guess you have to be a Riley clone as well as a Bush clone to get hired down there for anything, eh? Not to mention a card carrying member of the Federalist Society.

But not for long. As soon as the new prez and Congress take over next January, there are going to be a lot of Republicans heading to jail – or Paraguay. If they blow their noses wrong I say we lock them all up and let them private contractors who now run the overcrowded prison system have their way with them. Payback’s a bitch : )

Siegleman did nothing different than former Governor Fob James (Republican, of course) who also appointed Richard Schrushy to the same post.

Wake up America!!!