[KirkandBurke]

You'll be hard pressed to convince the party-blind. It's all "saints vs sinners" and "your team are scoundrels, my team can do no wrong" to them. It's sort of like the kid who walks into a diner and sees his favorite professional wrestling hero laughing and eating lunch with his "arch-enemy." The kid says, "How can you eat lunch with this guy? He's an evil cheater and he hates you!" The kid doesn't realize it's all staged. The problem in politics, though, is that alot of the "lesser lights" still think they're fighing for a good cause. Even they don't see the "Inner Party." Waxman probably thinks he's fighting the evil republicans and doesn't see that Clinton and Bush are virtually indistinguishable, save for the surface presentation. How will we ever get folks to realize that it's bigger than party politics and that party politics is little more than a distraction to keep us occupied. (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!)