I live (clap!clap!clap!) deep in the heart of Texas; football country. While I am no NASCAR fan, I enjoy hockey in exactly the same pass-me-the-hot-links, how-much-is-the-beer?, hit-him-with-the-butt-end-of-your-stick, boy-that-Domi-can-punch kind of way. To each their own. Some folks I know like pro wrestling. Some like arena football. Some like soccer. To each their own. Enjoyment of a particular sport is not necessarily any indication of a person's economic, educational, or cultural level these days, what with ESPN, ESPN2, FoxSports, and god knows what else that lives in Deep Cable.

But that's not what we're talking about, is it? No, we have to make sure that, for the Democrats to win, they become bullies. That, no matter how stupid the actions they take, it's okay, so long as they don't think or worry over whether those actions are just and right, so long as they take them decisively. That we emulate the Intimidator, and stubbornly cling to our bullying, unilateral, win-at-any-cost way, even to the point where, like him, it kills us.

Isn't that exactly how we got into this mess in Iraq in the first place, with ol' "Ironhead" Bush in charge?

Yup, the Democrats have had a tin-ear lately, no doubt about it. But somehow, MacGregor's doesn't like a winning strategy to me.

Ordinarily--and I know I am in the minority in this, and will no doubt P.O. many readers--I find Garrison Keillor's writings to be too clever by half, dancing around his main points in such a way that I am never quite sure what his main points are, let alone whether he made them well or badly.

But on a few ocassions in Salon, Mr. Keillor has dropped his usual writing style and addressed folks directly, and the result has always been a clarity and reasonableness that is almost impossible to dismiss. This is one such time.

I applaud Mr. Keillor's thoughts, the clarity with which he expressed them, and Salon for publishing them. Whether or not this President is impeached--leaving us with (shudder!) President Cheney?--the case for the logic of that action grows by the day, support by articles such as this. Hopefully as the outrage grows, and the horrid facts continue to mount, the pressure on our other elected representatives will no longer be ignorable, and we can, perhaps, move our country back towards being a beacon of freedom and enlightenment again. I wish it fervently with all my heart.