As much as I would love to see impeachment hearings, it would be foolish. What the asshole behind the curtain fails to acknowledge is that unless she is advocating the overthrow of the democratic process of voting, what you see here is the first stages of the age of the independent voter. The Dems didn't do this because the country woke up one morning and decided to be Democrats. The base for the Dems and the base for the Repub's voted just as they always have. But increasingly in our society, we have a large group in the middle that classes itself as Independent with leanings one way or the other. But they will vote one the issues at the time. Radicalism is not their way, and the quickest way to get them to retreat to their "leanings" is to be seen as too far one way or the other. It has always been thus, but this group that ID's itself as "Independent" is growing. In politics the fact is that it is always a fight for the middle. And a significant group of these "middle" folks now call themselves Independents and vow to vote for the person not the party. A few years back when I was heavily involved in getting US Senator Debbie Stabenow elected to her first term in the US Senate, we knew that we had to have the moderate Republican and Independent women in the Livingston, Washtenaw, Jackson, and Ingham county areas of Michigan to win. That is the same dynamic that is going on now on a national basis. In many ways, the US political system will take on the aspects of a parliamentary system as this group gains. One will have to make coalitions to win and govern.

Pelosi is a very smart politician. She understood from the get go that we should not waste time on retribution. We have a window of about a year to show that we can begin the country on a path back to sanity. We have a very short time to show the world that we are still the country that once was admired. If we get bogged down in the partisan gridlock, in the interest of the intellectual purity of thought bullshit, we will just get beat in 2 years and we will have squandered a great opportunity.

Change will not come like a thunderbolt. It must come by showing that there is a better way, and making steady progress. We owe the Bushies a debt, as they have defined the issues very clearly for us, they have given us clear map to where we have to go. And we must take steady steps up that path.

Unless you are a bitter idiot who knows only failed rhetoric and offers only self righteous pap with no practical solutions.

Unreasonable hatred? Nope, don't even know this person. But I do know what she posts, and I do hate that.

Mick