Mole, I also thank you for covering all this. And you're right, we are disorganized, meaning the citizens both here in NYC and nationwide who made the time between our jobs, families and life in general to work as hard as we could to hold the Bush Administration and its enablers of all parties responsible for what they did, continue to do, and in the case of holding impeachment hearings, refuse to do. We are disorganized because people in leadership positions in government (such as Nadler) as well as in corporate America and the main stream media who could have provided the necessary organization and focus have been astonishingly AWOL in sounding the alarms necessary to protect the Constitution. To slightly revise Naomi Wolf, tyranny is not only easy (liberty is hard), it’s well organized. Most citizens at one time thought we had elected officials and a free press to hold powerful feet to the fire. Those illusions are now long gone for many of us, and not a moment too soon.

As a result, normal citizens have taken on this fight ourselves. In some ways, the millions of involved Americans have done an amazing job of organizing, as anyone spending any time online at all over the last 7 years can tell you. We have made a mighty noise in Congress, and we have been heard. Nadler hears us loud and clear, I guarantee you that. The tragedy, one might say crime, is that Nadler, Conyers, Pelosi and even St. Obama (“impeachment is unacceptable”) just choose to ignore us. While we have the Constitution on our side, we don't have the bucks to compete with the vested interests that do not want true representational government, vigorous executive oversight or a moral commitment to keeping America a nation of laws, not men.

If we learn anything in high school about how our government is supposed to work, we learn about the Separation of Powers. We learn that the Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches are designed to be co-equal in order to check and balance each other. Yet under the Bush Administration, the Democrats as a party have refused to fight to restore this Constitutional order as a reality. Instead, they helped bury it. By reducing Congressional and Judicial relevance and ensuring future Executive overreach and lawlessness, Jerry Nadler and his fellow Democrats have damned us to repeat our mistakes, which will inevitably lead to more stupid, illegal, bloody wars for resources and corporate empire building.

On the bright side, if Nadler is breathing easier, he won't be for long. People in the 8th now know he is hardly the Constitutional warrior he claims to be. He should have led the fight to hold impeachment hearings. Instead, he took his marching orders from Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. He dug in and protected the status quo. He showed himself to be the calculating pol so many of his constituents always knew him to be, and hopefully we’ll get rid of him in 2010. But his problems don't matter - as Adam Sullivan says the Constitution is what matters and it's now no longer operative in Washington. As a nation, we will look back at this gutless, complicit 110th Congress and wonder why the hell they refused to do their jobs.

My good friends who worked so hard for Adam Sullivan should be damn proud of themselves, and Adam is a hero for standing up and speaking Truth To Power. It’s to his credit that he wasn’t a lifelong Democrat, and I urge him to switch back to being an Independent as soon as possible.

Dave Robinson
Brooklyn NY