outraged when Democrats wear tan suits, and they'll complain a lot about the deficit, and castigate the Democrats for not working with them.

And if, when we get back to power, the Democrats DO compromise with them before we do EVERYTHING we want to do, the way we want to do it, I'm going to have to go and throttle my representatives.

the 'resist' movement will continue when Dems are back in power, and some Dems holding office may find that a bit awkward when they get volumes of calls and letters from the base wanting to hold them accountable.

I've often said that in this modern time, we must judge politicians by what they DO rather than what they SAY. Because there is far too often a disparity between words and actions.

But it is this engagement by citizens that makes our government work. The fact it isn't working now is that for far too long people merely crossed their fingers when they voted that everything would turn out OK, and the government wouldn't REALLY do anything that would hurt them. Now, like many Americans, I'm going to do far more that cross my fingers and hope for the best. I intend to continue being a responsible citizen - keeping abreast of issues, and contacting those who represent me as I feel I need to.

After Watergate it was really hard to find people who would admit to having voted for Nixon. "Nixon? Who? Oh, that guy. Yeah, well, I didn't actually vote for him. Nice weather we're having. How about those Yankees?"

So cleansed they were able to skip the penitence step, and so purified they can't even remember, much less relate to, sins that died with this administration.

"After all, the nation needs a period of healing now. Finger-pointing is the wrong way."

'arresting' and torturing young girls.

I can remember reading a bio of Stalin back in the 90s that said they all watched - Kruschev, Molotov and Beria - and let him die. This bio was interesting because it was written after some of the old Soviet archives were opened.

Apparently, Stalin in 1953 felt that the Soviets could beat the west in a war, and so had decided to institute a new 'terror' that the west could not ignore, given what had become public only a few years earlier at Nuremberg. Stalin's plan, according to this biographer, was to begin rounding up and persecuting Russian Jews. This, he felt, would precipitate a war, again a war which he thought the USSR could win.

It is interesting also to note that it was Kruschev, not Beria, who emerged as the leader of the USSR, and that with him the days of massive death purges of political enemies ended. Stalin would just have his enemies executed. With Kruschev, enemies were exiled but allowed to live. Mostly.