You know that all is not right in the world when you wake up, as I did this morning, to hear George Bush congratulating the Democratic majority in the Senate for doing the right thing.

If Democrats continue to cave the way they did yesterday on the AMT, they will accomplish that which they are hoping to avoid - lose our votes. Democatic leaders need to muster some courage and be willing to fight hard for what they believe in. If they fail to do so, they risk becoming indistinguishable from the loathsome Bush administration.

One good way they can fight is to put impeachment back on the table. This week’s relevations about Iran intelligence and the CIA destruction of interrogation videotapes provider further evidence, as if any were needed, of the malignity and incompetence of the Bush presidency. If you want to be assured of our votes, do the right thing and bring down this shamelessly corrupt adminstration.

Ellen of the 10th has a nice post about “The Speech“, Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America“ address at the George Bush Presidential Library on Decmber 6th. I agree with Ellen. The speech was disturbing.

Romney identifies religious liberty as the topic of his address and then sets out to pledge fealty to the establishmentarians of the Christian right while trying to channel John Kennedy in the hopes of appearing statesman-like.

Romney insists that “Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone”, and further “Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government”. Religious liberty for Romney is not liberty at all. And our Constitution, which explicitly prohibits an established religion is of no consequence to him.

If it weren’t bad enough that Republicans like Romney are trying to establish their religion, the religion they want to establish is just so creepy. Basically it amounts to just toeing the line regarding abortion and homosexuality and institutionalizing Christian observances to remind ourselves what a great godly nation we are. Then they’re justified and can go out and invade sovereign nations in the name of God and Freedom and maim and kill their people. And they can ignore all the inconvenient parts of Jesus’ message and engage in their main project of making the rich richer at expense of the poor.