Once again Glenn Greenwald slammed one out of the park:

Investigations are so very rude and distasteful

There seems to be an emerging consensus among the coddled, effete Beltway media stars that it would be highly improper and uncouth for the Democrats -- should they take over one or both houses of Congress in November -- to launch investigations into the various, thus-far-uninvestigated lawbreaking and corruption scandals surrounding the Bush administration. Regardless of political differences -- which the Beltway media will allow -- the media stars are proclaiming that Democrats should pledge in advance not to engage in any of that nasty investigative business.

Greenwald's prime offenders are TV anchors Tim Russert (who viciously attacked Nancy Pelosi on Sunday) and Chris Matthews. I would add pundits like David Gergen and Bob Beckel.

For the media to take this sort of etiquette-based stance against investigations -- to actually see investigations as some sort of uncouth breach of etiquette, an upsetting disruption (exactly how they saw Stephen Colbert's criticisms of the President) -- is just staggering. The media doesn't exist to do anything other than investigate and exert skepticism over the Government's statements and actions. They barely do that anymore, which is why we know so little about what this administration has done. The media is supposed to be inherently pro-investigation. It's intended to be an investigative body, to subject government conduct to aggressive scrutiny and be devoted to the exposure of information which the Government is attempting to conceal from its citizens. To listen to these media stars effetely condemn investigations as though they're something which only hateful, rabble-rousing radicals would want to pursue tells you all you need to know about how fundamentally broken the national media is.

Not only how broken - but also how out of touch they are with with the American people. Here are some astonishing numbers from today's CBS poll:

q27 Overall, is Congress asking too many questions about George W. Bush's policies, or
isn’t Congress asking enough questions? 
 
                                 All     Rep   Dem   Ind
Too many                   16      35      5      14
Not enough               67     34    86      69
Depends (Vol.)              1       3      0       1
Right amount (Vol.)       8      12     2      10
DK/NA                          8      16     7       6

The American people want Congress to ask questions - and they know the only way to get non-bullshit answers is to haul administration officials and other witnesses before Congress and get their testimony under oath. (I suspect they would also support lie detectors and truth serum, and probably wiretapping of official phones and emails too.)

And what if those investigations proved Bush committed impeachable offenses? Then the American people would support that too.

That's what 65% disapproval ratings mean - Americans want Bush to get out of the White House now!

Update 1: Glenn Greewald's follow-up post was just as good as his original:

Bush is as unpopular now as Nixon was popular then. Not just "the Left," but a majority of Americans, is disillusioned and angry with Bush. After all -- although Beltway pundits find this notion to be oh-so-distasteful and overblown -- a majority of Americans believe that Bush "intentionally misled" the nation into invading Iraq. Don't you think they're angry about that? How many people do you know who aren't angry when they think that someone has "intentionally misled" them into anything -- let alone that a President did so in order to induce their support for a disastrous war on false pretenses?