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What would cause a person like Nancy Pelosi or Jay Rockefeller, supposedly members of the "loyal opposition", to march in lockstep with the authoritarian Bush Junta's attacks on the Constitution? Here are a few possibilities:
a) Co-option: they are simply in a privileged position (on the payroll), and don't want to rock the boat;
b) Threats: to destroy someone in a deliberately toxic environment, when the most minor of sins is endlessly a amplified, is easy for the vicious scum in the shadows. Who knows if actual physical threats are involved? Consider the anthrax mailed to prominent Democrats: US government- or contractor-sourced anthrax. Do you think they got the message?
c) Showtime: people like Pelosi and Reed are just hired public faces putting on a show to baffle the masses while the real business goes on in the shadows.
d) Interest: Pelosi and Reed represent the interests of a very small group of "people in law", and actual citizes can hang.
I think it's probably a combination. Only one solution, however: T'row the bums out! They are Quislings, Judas's, vendus, and wholly unworthy of respect let alone positions of public trust.
