Good on you, Kat. I'm going to compose a letter of my own that suggests that if the Dem's feel like they are being ramrodded that they just reconvene elsewhere, hold their own hearings, write theit own proposals and buy a few danged media sources to offer their alternatives, if of course, they have any alternatives. Iy would at least be better than sitting around the Hose and Senate Chambers while their Republican counterpart sit in conferences, door locked with their lobbyists writing puble law...

Somehow the Democratic Party, if it has any alternatives to offer, needs to do something daringly dramatic.

And MAV, if I might ask you a question, my friend. Why does one have to declare "war" in order to perform police work? In declaring "war" on terrorism Bush has pushed buttons of folks who prior to this *declared* "war" really had no particular beef with the US but now consider the US to be the head and the heart of what they percieve to be bad guys. "Bring it on."??? Like what's that all about? American's have died just about every day since that little John Wayne quote. And probably the worst thing about declaring this crime a war and attacking two countries, one of which had absolutely nuthing to do with the 9/11 crime, is that all it has done is weaken the US's ability to collect intellegence and intellegence (not bombing and shooiting kids, women and old folks) is the best tool against crime.

(But Bobert, war is more entertaining...)

Not for the folks in it, it's not...

Bobert