House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is receptive to the idea of prosecuting some Bush administration officials, while letting others who are accused of misdeeds leave office without prosecution, she told Chris Wallace in an interview on "FOX News Sunday."

"I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it," the California Democrat said. "And other things that are maybe time that is spent better looking to the future rather than to the past."

Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced Friday he wants to set up a commission to look into whether the Bush administration broke the law by taking the nation to war against Iraq and instituting aggressive anti-terror initiatives. The Michigan Democrat called for an "independent criminal probe into whether any laws were broken in connection with these activities."

President-elect Barack Obama has not closed off the possibility of prosecutions, but hinted he does not favor them.

Perhaps at the same time we need to initiate a criminal probe of Senator Edward Kennedy and his culpability in the murder of his campaign worker, Mary Jo Kopechne.

Oh....forgot...silly me...he needs to be excused that, one, he is a "Kennedy," and, two, he has brain cancer. Those are two good reasons.

And of course, we have nothing else dire to take care of in this country.