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So Much To Be Mad At

Every day Bush Co. provides more to be pissed off about. Every day it's something new. Illegal wire-taps against American citizens, "black-ops" prisons all over the world, $13 billion dollars removed from higher education aid in a dark-of-night senate vote, billions of dollars for Alaska to open ANWR and to build a bridge to nowhere (attached to a bill that appropriates money for the troops in Iraq, no less), supreme court seats being left for the christian right to pick; the list goes on and on.

I worry that nothing will happen about any of this simply because there's so freaking much to go after. It would seem a monumental task to appoint a committee to look into all these crimes, the house and senate would get even less done than they already do if all of the Bush crime family's dirty dealings were looked into. I say we need another special investigator (of course with an unlimited budget, the authority to look into anything, and unlimited time to bring charges) to help out Patrick Fitzgerald. And where has Mr. Fitzgerald been lately? After the Scooter Libby indictments, it's felt less and less like 'Fitzmas.' One hopes he is quietly building a rock solid case against Bush and his brain (Karl Rove). I guess I'm still looking for some real sense of outrage from democratic senators and for some promise that Bush and his cronies will be punished for what they have done to this country. So far, I see nowhere near the outrage that I personally feel from the senators that I voted for.

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