Dear Kos,
The time has come to take a big risk and see if we can have an impact on something that is meaningful.
The vote by the GOP Senators on the NSA domestic spying program is such an issue - one that we should bet the farm on. Yes - it will be a risk for all of us (and maybe for the progressive blogophere because perhaps the emperor has no clothes) if we fail but should the President be allowed to blatantly break the law and spy freely on a free people while all we do is blog or tisk, tisk about it. Yes - Ciro lost yesterday, but that is small change compared to the lying and national deceit going on in Washington each and every day. We are reduced to as a nation to torturing people and knowing about it yet not being able to do anything. Could anyone have imagined such a thing?
You have the national connections within the party to so something about this. It is time to take a risk and raise the KOS nation banner even if we stand to lose. Maybe the congress should take a pause and, as some have written, we should petition the government for redress.
Think about it - it is the right thing to do.