Kos, you have this website. It's quite popular and often remarked upon in the media. It's a very potent platform, because people who don't post here still know about things they wouldn't when they hear about it when the media remarks on it. You have influence with at least some important people, as your public appearances on political shows and in other venues demonstrates.
Dick Cheney just publicly admitted to helping to "clear" the illegal actions our operatives committed, such as torture. The Bush administration--that includes Cheney--are responsible for the most egregious violation of the law and our constitution since Nixon.
Yet for the last several days you've devoted almost all of your front-page entries to the New York Senator/Kennedy "issue." I actually agree in principle that if her consideration and impetus is merely based on name-recognition then you have a point. I don't live in New York, so I don't know.
And, frankly, I don't care. Neither should you. Whether or not Kennedy is appointed Senator at this point, regardless of how she came to the position, simply isn't relevant to our nation today. As I understand it, the governor of New York is the one who appoints the new Senator--no choice is going to be "democratic." Whether that issue (a governor's power to recess appoint Senators and Representatives) is substantially subversive to our Democracy is too small (right now) in light of the other issues we as a nation face.
The Nixon fiasco and its fallout took us down a fatal path; the Bush administration, if they get away with what they've done, will be another nail in the coffin. That's just a little more important than whether one Senator from one state was chosen from a pool of choices a single man will make his individual selection from based on her last name.
If you don't start using, publicly, whatever shred of influence you have to push for accountability--that is, imprisonment and trial for various crimes--of Bush, Cheney, et al., then not only are you completely in the wrong, but an abject failure and caricature. This site and all your work--here, in your books, and in your public appearances--will to my eyes appear vain grabs for attention and nothing more. (Yes, yes; my opinion isn't going to make you or anybody else lose sleep--that's not my point, and I don't give a damn if that's the case.)
Your entire shtick has been to get people to organize and work at various levels to accomplish things in our government. You as well as any other know that this requires leadership and action to set an example. That's the point and, recently as demonstrated by the November elections, the power of sites like this one; presumably that's why you created it. Politicians don't pay attention to individuals without money or connections--they pay attention to groups of individuals organized into movements.
So it's time to put up or shut up and show some leadership on this, Kos. It's time to use whatever influence you have to do something good and necessary for our democracy. Start using your influence, and that includes this site, to pursue justice. Really it doesn't matter whether you continue your little drama over Kennedy, as long as the time and energy investment you, personally, make to the pursuit of justice against the likes of Bush and Cheney is proportional to its relative importance to the Kennedy matter.