"You will never be able to push Bush."

Hogwash. Already have. We pushed back on the energy bill, and it has not passed. Nor have most of his really bad appointments on the judiciary side. Patriot II is not yet law. Compromises have been forced on the Republicans, though not as many as should have been. Bush was forced to go to the UN first, to get Congress to approve the Iraq war resolution.

I know that doesn't fit in with the convenient check the brain at the door attitudes of the Anybody But Bush camp, but it is the reality.

On the other side of the coin, what is the anti-war movement doing to put pressure on Kerry and shove him to the left? How about the civil liberties movement? NO? Well, what demands have the civil rights movement activists made of Kerry? The education sector? How about the unions--surely they have shoved Kerry in their direction?

No to all? Gee, what ever will the liberals do when the appease Kerry movement collapses? Throw us all in jail, like the lock up of political dissenters outside the convention hall in Boston in July?