Did anyone really expect the testimonies of David Addington and John Yoo to be enlightening or that they would show any respect for Congress?  Was there really any chance that these two Bushite SOB's, authors and believers in the imperial presidency and supporters of the president being above the law and therefore able to torture among other crimes without any accountability, would not be contemptuous of members of Congress? Was there any question that these two reprehensible characters, who disdain and defy the Constitution and human rights laws would exhibit any modicum of minimum respect for Congress?  Hell, no.

And was there any chance that members of Congress were up to the task of pinning these two hyenas skins to the wall.  Again, hell, no.

Occasionally, the chair of today's committee would score against Yoo, but that was the exception, not the rule.

As Mother Jones reports: "Today's House Judiciary Committee questioning of John Yoo and David Addington, architects of the Bush Administration's interrogation policies, was not impressive.

"Yoo was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel and Addington was and is Dick Cheney's consigliere. They were present at the formation of the administration's policies on which interrogation tactics are permissible and which are not, and they have spent the six or seven years since revisiting, studying, and defending those policies. Some of the congressmen questioning them weren't even in Congress when the policies were formed, and none of them have focused on these issues full-time.

"As a result, the questioning was at times laughably one-sided. Addington often showed his questioners little respect, and deliberately provided long and unnecessary citations to chew up their allotted time. Despite his reputation as a whip smart lawyer, he repeatedly claimed to not remember certain key meetings or events. Yoo, either because he has a greater sense of shame or because he is simply a less artful participant in the hearings dance, would admit that he did know certain things but that he couldn't specify them because the Department of Justice had prohibited him in advance for doing so.

"The chairman of the hearing, Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), repeatedly responded to Yoo's claims that the DOJ prohibited him from answering by demanding to know exactly what privilege Yoo was invoking in order to avoid testifying. Yoo asserted two things: first, attorney-client privilege, which he largely dropped after Nadler pointed out that such privilege was not allowable in Congress, only in courts; and second, that answering would inevitably reveal sensitive matters of national security.

"Eventually, however, it became clear that in some instances, neither of those assertions applied."

Congressmen and women: stop wasting the American people's time and cut to the chase. Bring impeachment to the table and shine the constitutional light on the crime and corruption that is the hallmark of the Bush administration.  Ignore the Wussacratic House so-called leadership and execute your responsibilities to the Constitution and the people: initiate the impeachment process against Bush and Cheney.