A spider comes out on my porch at dusk each night to weave a new web....

[fearthem]

to catch it's prey -- I watch it nightly and, like clockwork, at dusk, it comes out and begins its task, patiently, tirelessly weaving a new web each day, going 'round and 'round, crisscross, until it's good enough to catch the insects it needs to survive. It dawned on me that's exactly what the Republicans do -- everything by design -- they have woven an intricate web of deception, fraud, fear and, like the spider, they are dependent on weaving that web to catch their prey -- unsuspecting, unthinking Americans -- or they'll die.

Okay, okay, I realize it's a simple, perhaps silly, little tale, but sometimes we miss the obvious, most simple aspects of what is going on around us. Watching nature, you soon learn, only the cleverest, strongest survive; and, that is what we are up against.