Reply #47: Washington decorum and politeness have helped get us into this mess. [View All]

Remember how shocked the entire Washington establishment was when Howard Dean said that Saddam Hussein's capture had not made America safer?

Remember how utterly offended they were when Stephen Colbert tweaked the leader of the free world to his face--the same people who had guffawed obediently when Bush did his looking for those missing WMD routine and saw nothing at all offensive in Bush mocking his own rationale for going into a war in which Americans were bleeding and dying.

Remember how long it took for them to even acknowledge that the Downing Street Memos existed how long it took for mainstream pundits, much less major Democratic politicians to utter the word "lie" with respect to George W. Bush?

The Washington Establishment is a big part of the problem and I personally hope that the Democrats do not attempt to turn some of our newly elected representatives of the people, like Jim Webb, into mealymouthed go-along, get-along political sheep.