is what we should all be focusing on, rather than the beginning of the end. We've made a start and we need to push ahead to get our beginning firmly established as a new definition of business as usual.

The beginning was getting Barack Obama nominated. The beginning was having the majority of American's concede that the Bush administration is corrupt and ethically and intellectually bankrupt. The beginning was the revelations of impropriety, deceit and subterfuge actually seeing the light of day, if only in periodic instances of momentary attention before being overtaken by the Bush propaganda machine.

It would be easy to keep wringing our hands...but we should be doing something more agressive.

Like letting our individual senators and representatives know that we will not tolerate their defection from the principles which we expected them to espouse on the day we sent them to Washington. And that we will pull that support if they don't heave to.

Like letting them know that we expect them to prosecute to injustices done to the people of this country, and their constitution with the same vigor that Republican pit bulls exercised in their outrage over a little White House hanky-panky between two consenting adults.

Like putting our money, our time, our spirit into getting Barack Obama into the White House and keeping John McCain out.

Amen.

Well put. Thank you for saying what needed to be said.

""First of all, I didn't take a position on whether Bush deserves to be impeached, and I'm not doing so now either."

And from me...

The fact that people have been "talking" about impeachment for years doesn't make Kucinich actually introducing articles of impeachment irrelevant and a NON-NEWS EVENT. And how impressed am I that you personally talked to him and he made your point himself...snarky. Alex 1, Kucinich 0. Please.

I hardly bother to post here anymore. I miss Tim. The difference is enormous.

which large companies are paying Rove to bloviate in favor of free markets and the need to refrain from "demonizing American companies".

I sense several lobbying fees here, with Rove using his unfortunate access to the media as a means to advance the ends of his friends in high places with big wallets and an overabundance of corporate greed.

That face bears the look of lots of free and expensive dinners.

I smell something and it ain't American pie baking.

that the party of wealth and privilege (and sniping) is now trying to make Barak Obama, the bootstrap kid, out to be the country club stereotype.

But then, they made a war hero into a traitor the last time around.

Can't fault them, though. It's tough to be a Republican talking about substance and issues these days. Seems they missed that bus.

By the way, the next time Rove paints this picture, someone should remind him of his quail and truffle dinners, or whatever the hell he dined Bush on....it certainly wasn't burgers and beer.

Puhleez.

On the other hand, I'm gratified that turdblossom recognizes class when he sees it.

No, getting Obama elected is not the only thing that matters.

Seeing that McSame is NOT elected is the only thing that matters.

Oh...and seeing that the Republican Machine in Washington runs out of oil...or gas...or hubrus...or doors to hide behind in the halls of power.

That's what happens when you have a party of desperation and failure which also happens to be party of deflection, and deceit. It will not be about the issues. It will be about innuendo and downright dirty dealing, blatant hypocrisy and outrageous untruths.

That's the new politics. The Rovian way. Constructed to fire up the half-wits and grabbers of easy-to-understand slanders and slogans. The people who never have the real facts, and don't want them cluttering up the soggy brains they have carefully neglected.

Hope Fox Snooze is up to it. And if they aren't, CNN has lately been Fox not-so-lite.

Get your sneakers on and your checkbooks out. Get your outrage in gear and be prepared to take it into overdrive. If 2000 and 2004 were year for grassroots ratcheting...they were just the appetizer.

It will take everything we've got to make these people go away and take back our sanity and government. I'm on it.

Hands in, everybody...and into the fray.

Hate to be melodramatic...but this is going to be THE one and bitching and moaning and refusing to turn on the television set isn't going to help. Anyone who doesn't have the number of their senator and congressman on speed dial, and isn't on the mailing list and volunteer list of every grassroots group possible had better get it into gear. The morons who elected W are still out there. Those who have "seen the light" when it hit them close to home are still vulnerable to the lies and emotional obfuscation of the Republican machine.

Sign up. Donate. Write letters to the editor calling them on every bit of crap. Talk to people on the subway.

Don't just whine and look into Canadian citizenship. Help.

that a liberal or progressive could not be elected in this country, no matter how much the right has botched it all up.

If being a centrist is the only way to polically take back the White House, then sadly, I could live with that.

At least it would be a move in the right direction.

Then another "bear to the left"....then another.

And maybe some day we will be back to something that resembles reasonable ground.

Sigh.