Its becoming very clear that the Democrats represent only the lesser of two evils. Fascism light as it were. Its hard to imagine an Obama administration doing much to reverse the steep decline of the American way of life after reading something like this. Pelosi and Reid have already shown what they're made of, so no hope there either. All we can do is hope to slow the seemingly inevitable destruction of the middle class by keeping the truly fanatical out of office for a while.

I am deeply deeply ashamed right now.

Dear Glenn,

I am proud of you for going to the front line and taking the battle to these creeps. You have it exactly right that they are ashamed.

Can't be that hard to photo ID them.

Why is it that it is so easy for them to just keep shoving this stuff.

The good news is the MSM is all over this and heads are going to roll. Executives at all the major papers are declaring "not on my watch".

Thanks again,

Conrad Elledge

Don't you see this is what is necessary to WIN?

It is of vast importance that "we" WIN. Any rabblerouser suggesting otherwise or offering any criticism of the Winning Team is an anti-American, communist malcontent.

This is exactly why "we" need more elected officials with a "D" after their names. Once "we" have a lock on the government, then those politicians will change directions and institute policies which "we" actually believe in.

In Winning We Trust.

"Insider" political rags in D.C. were reporting this summer that the Blue Dogs forced Pelosi to bring up the FISA bill with telecom immunity. They are a large enough faction that she had to pay attention to them, and since the Blue Dogs, plus the GOP represent a majority of the House, the bill was passed. And now AT&T is showing it's gratitude to the Blue Dogs. Nice nice.

The book by Morris Berhman titled 'Dark Ages America' lays out the decline of our empire.

He says that there is no way to stop it from failing. It is hard to disagree.

The new dark ages in living technicolor and high tech!!! Just like an olympic event staged for consumption by consumers!!

Will we ever again be in the place that being a citizen is not a radical position?

"In Winning We Trust."

Yeah. How much more fucking stroke do you think we'd get by losing?

Hint: It's a hell of a lot easier to eat when you have a seat at the table and clowns that insist upon taking the high road and throwing working people under the bus while doing so make me have an almost uncontrolable urge to hurl.

Credential bearing members of the press hounded by private security, then by city police?

Is there any word on the number of serious radicals, hardcore protestors, and genuine malcontents in town? Considering AT&T's profile, the horror of Obama's FISA vote (and other right leaning actions of late), leave the door wide open for some serious (and much needed) dissent.

I know it may sound extreme, but what is to stop this convention from breaking down into Chicago '68 publicity nightmare?

I'm not thinking the full-on tear gas and bludgeonings motiff, but heavy-handed draconian nonsense irreparably tarnishing the Democratic party leading to the election of a Paranoid Sociopathic Republican to the White House.

Thanks Glenn.

Even Hollywood stars don't get that kind of police protection.

Yesterday I wrote the change would come slowly and only after great effort, and that this was infinitely preferrable to outright revolution and another Reign of Terror.

After reading this, I'm beginning to revise my opinion. Just a little.

Don't you see that multi-millionaire businessmen, multi-millionaire lawyers, multi-millionaire journalists, and multi-millionaire politicians have more than the rest of us?

And if thy have more than us, then they have more at stake than us in any given political issue. If they have more at stake than us, then they deserve to have more access to power and more power in general than we deserve.

Fair's fair, Glenn.

If you want to influence the issues or what your voice heard, you're free to become a multi-millionaire too! Nothing's stopping you except your outmoded paleo-leftist ideology.

Great coverage of an event obviously no one involved wanted to see publicized.

By flocking to post-Immunity Party Central, the Blue Dogs are just outing themselves as the Blue Tails - there's no doubt now that AT&T is doing the wagging.

Glad to see that you and Jane and the wonderful singing group can keep smiling while viewing the part of our government that is destroying our nation, bit by bit.

Look forward to your continuing TV reports that Democracy Now covers. It helps me to feel I am there and not suffering from the high altitude of the all mighty Blue Dogs.

I didn't realize that the Green Party candidate this year is Cynthia McKinney. After seeing the video from Democracy Now!, I think I'll vote for her.

(Don't get your panties in a bunch. I live in VT. Hardly a swing state.)

...do you sound surprised? This is, after all, just what a democracy like ours can be relied upon to foster. Given an electorate composed primarily of an eminently manipulable broad swath of the bell curve's intellectually enfeebled center, there can be no other outcome than corruption enabled by propaganda and sustained by those most amenable to the comfort ignorance provides.

Informed outrage is irrelevant within an idiocracy. That is what those party goers know--and what you, evidently, have yet to realize.

"The good news is the MSM is all over this and heads are going to roll. Executives at all the major papers are declaring "not on my watch"."

Forgive me if that was meant as snark ... if not, tell us what you've heard about an epiphany in the corporate media!

Until I have reason to hope about that, I'll rely on brave, honest-to-gawd blogger/reporters for my news for the convention and beyond.

And Glenn, you're always First Read. Thank you.