Here Goes Nothing

Blue Dogs, lefties, liberals, Bernie Sanders (first Socialist in the Senate, eh?), whatever the hell labels one wants to stick people with, please turn up and vote. We vote values; I am a leftist because I'm a Christian. I'm a liberal because I believe in protecting the rights of all people, including the down-and-out and unspoken-for. I'm an environmentalist because I believe it's our responsibility to put the needs of nature, its Creator and the healthy lives of my children over corporations' profits. I'm a progressive because I believe the wealthy and powerful have for too long dominated every aspect of the political realm and it's time for new power brokers to grace the stage. If anything else, I believe (in the words of my brother-in-law Cleveland) that it's time to be lied to by someone else. Tomorrow is a referendum not just on the governance of the GOP but the Bush administration and the arrogance that W. has governed the country with. Sanctimonious, incurious, ideological blind arrogance, which, in less than two presidential terms, has helped diminish the reputation of this great country, demoralized our armed services, pillaged its middle class, ignored its working class, favored its elite class, cowtowed to the religious right when convenient, ignored scientific evidence when not and ultimately placed the U.S. on a path of self-destruction which will take years after 2008 to fix, if possible. I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. Why is it that just about anyone named George (excepting Martha's hubby) has it out for this place?