Ebbie, I'm not disagreeing with you. I just think it's important not to get so sucked into the presidential politics, that we think it is the only game in town, and the only thing that matters. The majority of work that gets done by the government isn't really effected by the Rich White Man in the Washington White House. The majority of the work the government does is carried on regardless of who is in power, and policies often don't change much at all from one presidential term to the next.

It is true that the Commission's recommendations may not get funded. But this is a Bush appointed commission, and while their recommendations don't go nearly far enough considering the depth and breadth of the problems, and there is no commitment from the administration to fund it, the fact that they appointed the commission to study the problem is still more than Clinton did in two terms.

I think we need to have enough objectivity to realize that nobody is 100% evil, and if we always paint the Bush/Cheney White House that way, we have become as bad as they are about a lot of the "axis of evil" sort of thinking that deeply disturbs so many of us.