[Preechr]

What we should do is locate their FISA court and bribe the receptionist to let us into the file room!

Since you are agreeing with me, I think I will disagree with you. I don't believe Max is going to be in favor of anything having to do with this war. The only event I can remember him being in the least positive about was the initial invasion of Afghanistan, but he has deplored everything that's happened there since. I don't think he's particularly anti-war or, as some on the right might say it: against America, but he sees everything that's going on through his prism of hate for everything stained with Bush.

Let's run down a list, in no particular order, shall we?

Max defended Sandy Berger.

Max carried the flag for Joe Wilsonand his yellowcake and Valerie Plame and her supposed secret identity.

Max believes the very worst rumors in regard to Gitmo, and ignores any positive reports.

Max said Abu Ghraib was inevitable and just one more sign that the best thing we could do for Iraq was leave.

Max said our capture of Saddam was too late for anything good to come of it, and believed the story that he had been deposited there after torture by Kurds.

Max repeatedly falls back on our failure to capture Bin Laden to overshadow any success stories we might hear that he can't otherwise dispute.

Max wonders aloud prior to elections if Republicans might actually already have Bin Laden in custody and are just waiting to pop the news into the press at just the right time so as to influence the elections.

Max apparently believes George Bush has a secret computer in his study that sets gas prices and changes votes on Diebold voting machines.

Max can always be counted on for a calm, non-partisan and overall entirely reasonable explanation for the resignation of any Bush staffer whenever some Democrat talking head mentions it.

Max thinks Halliburton is an evil organization along the lines of COBRA, and that Dick Cheney still has his pudgy little fingers in the pie, manipulating their every evil move.

Max thinks our use of private security forces in the war such as Blackwater is akin to the employing of mercenaries.

Max says the troubles within the VA system back here and the hiccups in danger pay are proof that Bush cares nothing for our troops, and that means we should bring them home.

Max wondered aloud if Bush and Cheney was complicit in the Enron and Worldcom scandals.

Max religiously defaults against any twig connected to the Bush administration tree. If there is a negative or cynical spin to any news that could favor Bush, Max will find it. This is by no means a complete list, and I'm not just picking on Max here, either. Max is the most consistent and most vocal of his kind among you, so it's easy to see the pattern of pessimism.

What you guys fail to see is the pattern behind your pattern. Those that are motivated primarily by hatred are easy to manipulate. Nancy Pelosi has admitted that her leadership of the Democrats in Congress has been founded on opposition to anything the Republicans want to get done, and yet, the Republicans are still walking roughshod over her.

Here's how it works:

1. Something pops up in the media, and certain people start calling it a scandal.

2. Max starts to think THIS might finally be the thing that brings Bush down. The Scandal.

3. The Bush Administration hardly if ever acknowledges whatever it is.

4. The press starts screaming for answers.

5. Max starts posting that the only reasonable solution for such a horrible scandal, if it is in fact proven to be true, is the resignation of one of the Bush Cronies, maybe some investigations into this and all the other Bush scandals, and America's withdrawal from Iraq.

6. The Bush Administration continues to ignore the screaming and the yelling.

7. Democrats from the Congress and Senate start making the rounds, and the pundits weigh in.

8. Max smells blood when he finds some Republican that has questions regarding this latest scandal. God forbid someone previously in the military or the Bush Administration writes an op-ed on the subject! That permits Level 2 frustration, and this moves from a Scandal to an OUTRAGE!

9. The Bush Administration offers no comment on the OUTRAGE!

10. The Scandal that fomented the OUTRAGE! is either proven to have been grossly misrepresented or completely fictional... maybe even based on misconceptions or outright lies... or the OUTRAGE fizzles into investigations that go nowhere and prove nothing other than politicians from both sides of the isle are generally incompetent.

11. Somewhere, a new scandal is born, and we start the process all over again as if the previous Scandal/OUTRAGE never happened... though Max vaguely remembers it as one more page in the Bush dossier of evil.

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So, instead of focusing your leftist energies on positive leftist policies that might do some good for this country and thus the world, you guys, and Max, have spent the past 6 years wrapped up in this cycle of hate and outrage where the Republicans only have to ignore you and do whatever it is they want to do.

I suppose Bush Hate is a misdirected anger at your party's self imposed political impotence.

I think it's unhealthy. I'm genuinely worried about you guys. You too, Max.