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Daggammit. Talk about shock and awe. It’s stunning how quickly the Bush Cabal is undermining American values and human rights. They apparently have no appreciation of the fundamental importance of the concepts “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” to the health of our democracy.

The New Yorker just published an article by Seymour Hersh documenting the plans of the cabal to move the war in the Mideast on to Iran. Are they nuts? And this is supposed to get ordinary Iranians to rise up against their government to support our invasion? Didn’t the cabal have this same theory regarding the Iraq disaster?

On Dec. 4, AlterNet posted the text of Bill Moyers’ acceptance speech for the Global Environment Citizen Award presented by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Frightening and energizing. An excerpt:

One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.

He refers to an article written by Glenn Scherer and published online in Grist entitled The Godly Must Be Crazy, which is also worth a read.

We voted. We lost. At least we did not have to go through another Florida.

This map of the results says it all.

I’m off to register as a partisan for the first time in my life.