You rock, Glenn. Keep pursuing this story.

I'm sick to death of hacks telling me when it's "time for closure." The "time for closure" -- whether you're talking about vote counts in Florida and Ohio, missing billions in Iraq, political purges at the D.O.J., or reckless, criminal behavior by military spokespersons -- is when the mysteries has been solved, and the wrongdoers have been held accountable.

Let's quit letting the crooks "ride out" these "scandals!"

I've just peeled my Obama sticker off of my car; I'm not supporting the Democrats in 2008. If I have to, I'll vote for kooks like Lyndon LaRouche -- or just write myself in as a candidate.

After six years of the Bush nightmare, it took this Democratic Congress to make me feel completely sidelined in American political life.

The judiciary's already gone; three or four more Alitos won't make a difference. (I'm speaking as someone who ranted at the Nader supporters about the significance of judicial appointments. I was right back then, I think. But when you've lost, you've lost.) Hillary Clinton's not going to end the war in Iraq, or stop our illegal and immoral program of torture, rendition, and "black" kidnapping. The Democrats have no desire, much less will, to legislate tough environmental reforms.

There's no point pretending that my side -- my side, on almost every issue of importance -- hasn't definitively lost the war.

Fuck the cynical, corrupt, cowardly Democrats. To hell with the corporate prostitutes like Feinstein and the wimps like -- I'm sorry to say -- Barack Obama, who will quietly vote the right way, but won't otherwise exert themselves in any way to keep the party from selling out its base, and the country, at every turn.

Perhaps the Democrats have finally hit on a successful electoral strategy -- be the weakest, most ideologically bereft party in American history -- but one of the consequences of adopting this strategy is that certain fringe voters will be driven from the fold. I'm one of those voters, I guess. In one year, my cautious sense that things might finally be getting better has been snuffed out for good.

I've knocked doors for every Democratic presidential nominee for the last two decades. No more. I'm sick of playing the fool for people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.