Perhaps it will be enough for us to try to stop folks from adding blood to the water!
I guess the point of my misguided effort was to say that we do have big problems in this country. Those problems are large enough not to require overstatement and misrepresentation. When people say they want their elected representatives to listen to them and then accuse them of lying when in fact they didn't or to ascribe evil intentions to simple difference of opinion then, being human, the elected officials start to wonder what's the use. You don't convince anyone to do something while calling them scum. Bush is 30 % through his first term and maybe his only term in office and no one seems willing to look at what he has accomplished. The Government is not a collection of street gangs that schedule rumbles to decide what philosophy wins 100%. There is no 100% in politics it is usually 50-50 because when you get right down to it, this government really is a reflection of the people that elect it.