Amen!

Book TV carried the Miami Book Fair all weekend! It was the sweetest dream imaginable for this lefto book lover, watching political writers talk about their books to adoring crowds.

I'm so darned brain dead lately I haven't been able to come up with anything original to post, so yup, here's more New York Times. Here's quote from Frank Rich's op-ed column on Bush's mess in Pakistan, the supposedly DECENT people in the senate giving the nod to Mukasey's fake-out on torture, and other things. And to this I say, "AMEN!":

Last weekend a new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Mr. Bush are both roundly despised throughout the land, and that only 24 percent of Americans believe their country is on the right track. That’s almost as low as the United States’ rock-bottom approval ratings in the latest Pew surveys of Pakistan (15 percent) and Turkey (9 percent).
This next paragraph is SO true, for me:
Wrong track is a euphemism. We are a people in clinical depression. Americans know that the ideals that once set our nation apart from the world have been vandalized, and no matter which party they belong to, they do not see a restoration anytime soon.
This, from earlier in the piece, explains it:
What makes the Democrats’ Mukasey cave-in so depressing is that it shows how far even exemplary sticklers for the law like Senators Feinstein and Schumer have lowered democracy’s bar. When they argued that Mr. Mukasey should be confirmed because he’s not as horrifying as Mr. Gonzales or as the acting attorney general who might get the job otherwise, they sounded whipped. After all these years of Bush-Cheney torture, they’ll say things they know are false just to move on.