Highly recommend the sweet-corn ice cream at Zeta's Car Parts and Ice Cream in Orangewalk Town, fwiw...

Damn! You, Jebbie, and the rest are making me wanna go there! Better get to some Googlin' here right quick!

Please guys, given Shooter the Policy Donk's last post, can we all agree it's just best to ignore his posts entirely? Ugh. Scroll on by. Nothing to see there.

But as someone who reads you every day, I'm simply becoming more and more frightened and disheartened by the content of your posts. Your tone suggests that we're screwed, there's nothing we can do about it.

Can you offer your readers any hope (other than the StrangeBedfellows campaign) that justice will ever be done here? The campaign is an excellent idea for preventing future abuses, but what about the abuses/crimes that have already happened?

Give us a straw to grasp at. Please. --Red Snapper

Red, I don't know if this will help, but here is how I choose to find solace at what is surely one of the most depressing times in our nation's political history:

1) This country has managed to weather similar attacks on our freedoms and liberties. McCarthyism, Japanese Internment, J. Edgar Hoover, etc etc. I realize those did not comprise the scope and pervasiveness of what we face today, but just as these atrocious laws have been passed, so too can laws be passed to undo them, or they can be rendered unconstitutional. That is why I plan to be a regular contributor to the ACLU in the weeks, months, and years to come.

2) Glenn is doing the very thing we need in order to get these atrocities addressed, and eventually reversed. Grass roots, large-scale activism will not transform the landscape overnight, but with time and dedication, it will make a difference. I think Glenn and others realize this, and as we all come to grips with the fact that it is no longer about red and blue, but rather about a criminal Congress acting as one against its citizenry, the results of our efforts will bear more and bigger fruit.

At least, that's what I am holding onto. Otherwise, I think I'd just move to Belize or something.

And for the relatively innocuous Snow.

Excuse my blasphemy, but....

God are you stupid.

What it suggests to me is an electorate where the majority are not sure of their own opinions, hold self-contradictory views, and can be easily swayed simply by the wording of an issue.

And thus, the reason Karl Rove and the other "attack ad-ists" exist and flourish.

On the other hand, when you are fed disinformation long enough, you believe it so strongly that even when presented with stark, incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, it is easily dismissed because most ill-informed citizens don't want to admit that they've been holding an (choose your word) incorrect, unsustainable, illogical, stupid, criminal......point of view.

So which is better? The malleable fence-sitter, or the Rush-like dittohead?

Ehh, which is worse is more like it.

As I was getting ready to email Obama's site to once again ask him to block this FISA bill, I noted this at the very top of his contact page:

I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring real change to Washington...I'm asking you to believe in yours.

It's quotes like these, repeated ad nauseum, that, when compared against Obama's stance on the FISA bill as a Constitutional Law Professor, make me want to just check right out of this entire advocacy process. Makes me feel like no matter what the issue or the rightness of it, or how loud or often we protest, it just doesn't matter.

I'll keep pushing on, and trying to care, but man, that quote was like a punch in the stomach out of nowhere.

I watch Countdown EVERY night, 5 days a week. There's no arguing he's been the lone voice in the televised MSM of common sense and justified outrage at the (almost too) numerous crimes and misdemeanors of the Cheney adm....err, Bush Administration.

However, two observations I have been keenly aware of about Keith and his show:

1) He has been CLEARLY pro-Obama and anti-Hillary for the entire time they were viewed as the two Democratic frontrunners. Watching him every night, it is just so clear to see. He did NOT come down on Obama the way I expected him to, or the way he should have, based on his own remarks of the past and his constant bashing of the Bush Adm's wrongdoings and the weak-kneed Democrats. What Obama did was every bit as weak, capitulating, and principle-free as those Olbermann routinely critisizes.

2) His "guests" on the show are restricted to a very narrow, short list of folks who will almost always agree with what Keith thinks. Seriously, when was the last time Keith had someone on his show where they fundamentally disagreed about anything material and actually discussed it? I know why Keith does this--to keep the theme of his show consistently Pro-Dem, Anti-Bush, and Anti-Fox.

If you want to be more than another obviously biased pundit, Keith, then get some new guests on your show with varying viewpoints. And if you disagree with them, fine! Take them to task and show your viewers why their viewpoints are weak. Those of us intelligent enough to see weak-ass, extemporaneous tap-dancing when we see it are getting mighty tired of watching the same garbage come out of Dana Milbank, Jon Alter, and Richard Wolfe every night.

I am outta here. This place is an insane asylum and most of you are fucking nuts.

Don't let your browser hit you in the ass on your way out....