You should read the whole post from Functional Ambivalent, but here’s an excerpt:
When I was a kid I was so enthralled with language that I would sit for hours reading the dictionary. I’ve spent my professional life using words to convey ideas, and I lack the vocabulary to describe how strongly I feel at this moment. It’s almost like a state of mourning. President Bush and his followers are killing the Constitution, giving some future authoritarian all the tools he needs to enslave the nation that was once a shining city on a hill. This gang of idiots, led by a vacuous nimrod who knows nothing but politics and his own, irresistable Oedipal scorn, has whipped the Grand Old Party into a fear frenzy. Bush Republicans, quivering chickens that they apparently are, are tearing the Constitution apart in front of our very eyes and telling us its for our own good.
That the Democrats sat silently while this abomination passed tells me that the Democratic Party might as well be dead. They can fillibuster a federal judge’s nomination but not the enfeeblement of the Constitution? The pathetic, dumb bastards, standing silently by for fear that Karl Rove will commission a 30 second attack ad claiming they’re soft on terror. We need to run every one of the useless clowns out of office.
The only appropriate reaction to the Republican rape of the Constitution is sputtering rage. That we aren’t marching on the White House with torches and pitchforks, demanding that this horrendous law be repealed, indicates that we, the people, may not really be much worth protecting. Retire the eagle as the symbol of the United States; we’re a nation of sheep.