it is a sad fact that some of the cleverer conservatives have learned how to manipulate money and single-issue voters 'just' enough to gain power and pack the courts and congressional committees with henchmen. Yes, it is possible to vote them out again in 2 or 4 years, but the damage they can do in the meantime is immense!

I know someone high in EPA who explains that Reagan disemboweled so many programs that they will probably never recover. Environmental issues are now on back burner/low priority, and civil rights issues are heading there fast.

It is tempting for some to wave the flag real hard to distract us from the fact that the gap between rich and poor is widening every day, and shows no signs of slowing.

You know the story of how to cook a frog by putting it in a pot of cool water and raising the temperature very slowly until......? The Republicans are turning into pretty good frog cookers...though they seem to be thinking if the walls of the pot are high enough, they can raise the temperature faster.

It sure will be an 'interesting' couple of years.