Reply #59: What Pelosi did or didn't do comes down to means and ends. [View All]

It was very much her job to nurse what power Democrats had and to try to grow it. She did that very well.

In the meantime, she avoided confronting some of the most egregious attacks on the very fabric of our civil society, on our Constitution in our history. A lot of people died, a lot of people were ruined -- from the raped women prisoners at Abu Ghraib to people like Paul Minor who wasn't allowed to say good bye to his dying wife.

The Democrats are about to gain a significant majority. I guess to my mind, the cost vastly overshadows the victory and, in fact, it makes me ill when I think of all the victims of the Bush Administration that could have been saved had someone in power done even only what they could do.