Reply #17: It's unfortunate that out patience is wearing thin at this point.

[sofa king]

Regrettably, the changes the Democrats have already wrought aren't totally obvious to many of us, though they are quite visible:

* The political climate, if measured purely in terms of monetary donations to political parties and candidates, is now heavily in favor of the Democrats.

* Even though this is an off-election year, the oil companies apparently don't feel welcome to secure their usual Bush-era windfall summer profits.

* Harry Reid kept his promise to keep the Senate in pro forma session through this recess, so Alberto Gonzales and others can't be replaced with other criminals.

* The propaganda wing of the GOP has lost all credibility and its voice is virtually ignored instead of making daily headline news.

* There have been markedly fewer bullshit terrorism warnings designed to distract from the crimes of the Bush Administration.

Those last two points are particularly important, because I think that's why our patience is running thin. Using the slow-grinding machinery of Congressional inquiry, the Bush Administration has been forced to abandon its usual, dishonest and probably illegal methods of deceiving the public and controlling the debate, to the point where the Joseph Goebbels of this administration has abandoned his post to catcalls.

We're getting pissed because all the filters and bypasses created by the Republican slime machine have broken down. Instead, the American public is now mainlining Bush Administration crime, corruption, and prevarication, and we are quickly losing all tolerance for it.

Good. Be pissed. Stay pissed. Make sure everyone you know is pissed. But don't say that the Democrats haven't done anything, because they've provided us with the opportunity to pay attention for once.

(This is a general statement and obviously cannot be directly applied to you, kpete. I and everyone else here knows and appreciates your tireless diligence and willingness to document the actions of this most malicious political era, and I for one thank you for it.)