The American people are paying dearly for their mistakes.

When they nonchalantly march to the polls and pull the lever of their "favorite" Party, without thought of the consequences of their actions. When they turned the other way while Dick Cheney was having his "energy" meetings in 2001. When they did not educate themselves about what they were voting for. Now they bitch and moan because they have to pay $4.00 per gallon for gasoline. And they look for a government bailout as their mortgages collapse around them. But they got a taxcut, or so they believe.

While the incomes of average Americans have dropped by about a $1000 per family over the last 7 years, it does not take into account the price paid for food, energy, and necessities. Yes, there is a price to pay for your votes. By listening to lies put out by people such as Karl Rove, George W Bush, and the Swift Boat Veterans, we are all paying for your mistakes. Because of your naivete or lack of curiosity, we are all paying for your right to vote and for your right to vote wrongly.

There are consequences to our decisions. The same boogiemen will be coming around this time also. They will be carrying a sack of lies, in order to persuade you of their righteous cause in the name of God, and hoping you will buy the peppermint candy once again. Do not think for yourself. Let others think for you. Vote for what you think is in your interests or the interests of someone else, but please think about it before you pull that lever. Please?

The people with limited means get hit the hardest because they get the smallest tax cuts, but the same rate of cost of living increase.

For a family living on the edge of financial ruin, even a small cost increase in things like transportation or home heating can push them over the edge.

Of course old 'shoot 'em in the face' Dick Cheney is rich and doesn't have to worry about little things like the price of gasoline.

about his group's first meeting with Cheney, I wonder even more about those energy meetings.

Scalia has made certain we'll never know, it seems.

Every election since 2000 has been seriously rigged, by a combination of electronic machines, voter intimidation, illegal purges of the rolls, and plain ol'fashioned election fraud.

Don't blame voters for the stolen elections.

But not by the millions of votes that the Republican Party has received in the last few elections. What happened in the last Congressional election? Were all the thieves asleep?

It's harder, now that there are essentially no exit polls. The margin has to be so high that everybody says "I don't know anybody who voted repuke. How could the possibly have won?"

the elections that needed to be stolen. IOW, they would have had to mess with dozens of states' election returns, and many county returns, to get a pub majority. They were not willing (or perhaps able) to conduct such a sweeping theft. They will content themselves with the presidential election, which has worked out fine for them (despite the Congress' Dem majority).