Why do you say nothing can be done? It seems to me that is precisely what Congress has been incapable of doing. If they had done nothing -- not bring up votes on continuing to fund the war -- that would have been something. But no. They have to appear to be doing something. So they continue to fund death.

It's all very well to be happy about small bits that help our individual states, to say the anti-war people shouldn't be so rude and stubborn and negative. But it's just talk about small actions. Actions being dwarfed by this war.

And it's not really about whether anyone here thinks anyone is listening to me. They aren't.

The point is that my "attitude" reflects a pretty common point of view. We know all the rest of it is hogwash, that 70 cents is a giant victory some pol can raise funds on, that without a major shakeup in administrations nothing is going to really be done about health care, the environment, education, etc. If then. It's all window dressing and Americans know it.

We don't expect these things to be solved by pols. Not really. It is beyond them.

But we do know that they could stop writing checks to fund this war. That's one thing they could do.

So there's a reason for the bad attitude. And, like it or not, it's how a lot of people feel. People who generally vote Dem but now with a large dollop of "well, who else is there?" with a receding expectation that it makes any difference in real life for most people.

Nance