The Democrats in Washington who now complain they were fooled had better access to intelligence than did Scott Ritter and the UN Weapons Inspectors. They had better access than the writers for the Nation Magazine and the authors on Kos and than Atrios and the hundreds of thousands who marched against the war. So their late protestations don’t do much for me. But the people who voted for Bush – AGAIN – who donated to his campaign, who shouted down the dissenters and who wanted their tax deductions, who thought “anti-abortion” was only meant to interfere with the right of poor people, who thought Bush was a nice guy you could have a beer with, who wanted to believe that a New England prep-school drunk aristrocrat screw up was a strong and capable Cowboy, who felt tough when children were turned into hamburger by sturm und drang, who sneered at the bleeding-hearts, who sacrificed basic morality for wacky ideas about embryos – all those peope can shove it too.
All right. I feel better now. Welcome to reality fellow citizens.