From Suburban Guerrilla:

PUSHING BACK

Mark Kleiman's got it right:

What should we do about it? Why, we should make them pay.

The contemporary Republican Party has demonstrated a complete lack of scruples and no sense of limits in either taking power or using power. (The current "purge" -- their word, not mine -- of the Directorate of Operations at the CIA to rid it of those not personally loyal to GWB is just the latest example.)

If they keep playing football and we keep playing croquet, guess who's going to keep winning?

Pelosi and Reid, and the rest of us, need to take a page from the Republican playbook of 1993-2000. No surrender, no compromise, no bipartisanship, no civility, no reaching out to Republican officeholders (as opposed to detachable Republican voters): nothing but scorched earth from here to victory.

No, it won't be pretty. But continuing to be ruled by these thugs is worse.

Amygdala: Clean Slate Day. There will be a few scorched earth dead-enders, but grownup progressives will see the wisdom in unity. Hillary didn't lose the race, Barack won it.

MoJo Blog: Ten House races all headed in one direction

VetVoice: A big story about the Bush plan to keep Iraq under US control after he's long gone and on the lam. The timing could also boost that ingrate, McSame.

Skeptical Brotha: Hillarite reaches out to the Congressional Black Caucus about that open slot.

The Pump Handle: Crashing cranes, deaths, and the White House's edict. And don't miss CBS 60 Minutes this Sunday with more on the BUSHCO OSHA failure to protect workers.

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