This evening, I signed on to Daily Kos and saw the following two comments atop the front page.
1. "Another setback for GOP chances in 2006." Summary? That two weeks longer in Washington for incumbants means a slightly shorter campaign period for these guys. Yay.
2. "ABC reassuring right-wing bloggers." Summay? That one of the major (non-Fox) sources of media for the American people -- a huge, multinational corporation with tentacles in all the nooks and crannies of the information, entertainment, and technology businesses -- is in collusion with the reigning political party (or its allies, anyway) to disseminate propeganda on behalf of that party.
Yaargh!
The imbalance of power is so absurd as to be hysterically funny, except it's not. I'm beginning to see what Kos meant when he said last week that he's seen the Republicans close the deal too many times to be optimistic.
This is it, folks. The culmination of the merging of corporate and government power (as Mussolini said -- or more likely didn't say -- of fascism). The really scary part is that we've become so used to it.