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I always find it amusing when a politician, of whatever party or ideology, talks disparagingly aboutg "the politicians".

Bush is still trying to push the idea that anybody who opposes is ill-conceived occupation of Iraq, or any other aspect of his "war on terror" is an enemy of the state. Fortunately, I think more people, even some of the more sane Republicans, are starting to see through it. I think we will likely have a Democrat cotroolled congress after the 2006 elections. I'm not totally happy about that, but I think one or two sound electoral defeats is the only way that the Republican party can be purged of the neo-con and religious right nutcases, and become, once again, the party of limited government, free-market economics, and fiscal responsibility.