You need to learn that brevity is essential to communicating in writing.

I don't accept criticisms from people who don't leave a name with their comments. If you don't like how I write, start your own blog.

That's yeomanly historiography. Wonderful cites, apt quotes, and your OWN piece of the action is apropos and unobtrusive.
Plus, it is a remarkably cogent source of precisely what is at risk at the hands of these fascist Bushista pigs...
Good job...Well DONE!

Well, we're never too old to learn something. I think I'm beginning to understand a little more about Ethan Allen.

It’s the stupidity, economy!

Here’s some interesting data from several key states:

Florida:

Unemployment rate in August 2003 = 5.2
Unemployment rate in August 2004 = 4.5
Net W-2 job creation over past year = 155,400 new jobs

Wisconsin (10 electoral votes - Gore 2000):

Unemployment rate in August 2003 = 5.7
Unemployment rate in August 2004 = 4.8
Net W-2 job creation over past year = 44,200 new jobs

New Jersey (15 electoral votes - Gore 2000):

Unemployment rate in August 2003 = 5.9
Unemployment rate in August 2004 = 4.8
Net W-2 job creation over past year = 65,900 new jobs

Oregon (7 electoral votes - Gore 2000):

Unemployment rate in August 2003 = 8.4
Unemployment rate in August 2004 = 7.4
Net W-2 job creation over past year = 34,300 new jobs

Iowa (7 electoral votes - Gore 2000):

Unemployment rate in August 2003 = 4.6
Unemployment rate in August 2004 = 4.5
Net W-2 job creation over past year = 11,400 new jobs

Hmm.

Well, from Senator Kerry’s perspective, I guess there’s always the all-important credit card debate.

(Note: Raw employment data can be found here and here.)

Ah, Dubya's Steady leadership in times of change. "Hold the course."

Excellent and edifying posting by pessimist -
Thank you.

Here’s some more interesting data from several key states, for Anonymous:

Florida:
Unemployment rate 2000: 3.6%

Wisconsin:
Unemployment rate 2000: 3.6%

New Jersey:
Unemployment rate 2000: 3.7%

Oregon:
Unemployment rate 2000: 4.9%

Iowa:
Unemployment rate 2000: 2.6%

(Source: US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics))

Hmm.

Well, from President Bush's perspective, there's always weapons of destruction to lie about.

The Titanic Captain...."hold the course"

i believe the saying is :Brevity is the soul of wit / in this post pessimist is giving us an excellent civics lesson and i thank you very much

Thank you for bringing these noble voices all together.

It might open the eyes of conservatives who take the constitution seriously.

It is certainly a call to action!

Bush, President Cheney, Rummy and Rove used the originals for toilet paper.

Srry, th cntrct hs bn brchd. W dn mrdrd r pstrty.

You won't get any quarrel from me. Here, unfortunately, you are preaching to the converted. When more people vote for "American Idol" than vote for President or Congress, however, it's hard to be surprised that the government is controlled by a small number of narrow commercial interests.

Most Americans have given up their interest in governing their own country. Whether they bought the myth that "my vote doesn't count" or simply don't give a damn, only half (at best) of eligible voters turn out for general elections. Far fewer than that are involved in the daily conversation of governing our nation.

This is why the conversation of government has turned into a shouting match between extremes.

No there is no fourth branch of the national Government in the USA. There are three. The wordtricks you employ to fabricate the fourth though poetic and lengthy are not convincing.

Our founders were brilliant. They established three equally important branches with divided powers and built-in checks and balances to prevent any one from getting too powerful. But power corrupts, so almost from the start men tried to use power to gain power. The way our government operates today would make our founders cringe.

There are too many examples to list but here are a few: Activist judges, appointment-blocking representatives, military actions by presidents without consent of the legislature, Federal agencies grabbing power from the States without authority, Even printing money (The constitution provided for coining money from precious metal- our founders knew that paper money ALWAYS eventually brings monetary collapse)

Even provisions for changing the constitution were clearly spelled out. Our founders knew that times would change and the people would need an orderly way to update the law of the land in a legitimate manner. (Not through judicial fiat as has been used for the last 40 years.)

And we Americans don't seem to mind if the giant beast keeps growing as long as we perceive he's on our side in the Demo-Repub debate. That is all a ruse. Because if you allow a judge to illegally overstep their authority today (to promote your cause)then another one will try the same illegal trick against you one day and you'll howl about it.

Americans need to simply go back to the constitution's design for divided power, checks and balances, state's rights, and making amendments when THE PEOPLE approve. It is an awesome document, our constitution. The failures of our government in recent years is not the constitution's fault, but our fault for letting politicians and judges ignore, spit on, and abuse their legal limits to power.