We were going to stop the Swiftboating 527's, but the issue left the headlines and it stopped being important before it got done. We were going to stop Alito, but we couldn't fight the Delay/Rove push when they had the majority in the House and Senate. We were going to fight the Patriot Act but we got distracted by other issues.
We were going to fight for effective Katrina recovery assistance but an effective lobby of poverty-level survivors never made it to K Street. We were going to fight torture as an America military practice, but we folded our hands as the President dodged the McCain directive. We were going to fight the White House subverting the Constitution and the rule of law as it claims special capacity to spy on any American, but we didn't. We were going to fight the established order of lobbyists controlling the business of government, but we turned our backs.
We are fast becoming the enemy. Who is more at fault, the thief or the cop that takes a cut and lets him walk? Who gives shit? Our country is collapsing like a flan in a cupboard and the Washington establishment (Democrats, Republicans, Journalists) are too far gone to help us now. They are the thief. Are we the greased cop?