Does anyone else feel like we're living in the former Soviet Union? Is one party rule, abandonment of civil liberties, Orwellian double speak, state run capitalism, spread of empire, etc, now acceptable for this country? I'm so disgusted and devastated that the Dems are incapable of supporting censure let alone bringing down our Crook in Chief when he is at his weakest. The Dems are doomed to failure in '06 and '08 because they ignore candidates with integrity, e.g. Feingold and Paul Hackett. It makes me want to cry and is almost enough to make me want to live my life in Northern California in isolation from everything political and anything having to do with government. I'm a lifelong Dem, but will probably change my party affiliation to Independent. I'm sick of voting for the lesser of two evils. I hope that this doesn't sound defeatest, but hope is dwindling.