Destroying Our Democracy in Order to Save It

If you're like me, you've shut down. (No jokes; I know how long it's been since my last post, and thanks - I missed you too.) Gone fishin'. Closed up shop and gone south for the winter. Figure you can't change the situation: Bush is it, Bush is gonna be it for over three more years, and with the GOP controlling all three branches of the Federal government, there's no point in wasting emotional energy fighting what can only be a losing battle. Might as well pack it in and wait until 2008, or at least 2006.

But.

But.

But.

In this Salon piece, Michelle Goldberg quotes smart people asking the key question. All this yammering about laws, about facts, about what it means to be an American - it's all come down to a crystalline point so hard and sharp, you could use it to etch the Bill of Rights onto the Hope Diamond. The president broke the law and violated the Constitution. The president, far from being contrite, is defiant about having done so. The president proclaims he will keep right on doing it, and that no one is in a position to stop him.

The rubber has met the road, ladies and gentlemen. This is what it comes down to: In the clearest possible terms, your president has proudly acknowledged destroying this democracy in order to save it.

Which means there is only one question left:

What are we - what are YOU - going to do about it?