Well, we're officially back in the Congressional majority as of today, and we all have high hopes and/or expectations for this Congress. I don't know if it's humanly (or politically?) possible for the Democrats to enable all the legislation that needs to be enabled in this session, but I'm counting on them to make one helluva stab at it.

I only wanted to say one thing... I know I am quick to jump on my representatives when they do something I don't agree with, but I'm not always as quick to tell them when they do something I approve of. I guess I just figure they should know instinctively.

But they can't know; they aren't mind-readers. And just like the rest of us, they need both negative and positive feedback on their actions.

And more importantly, they need to know that we will stand with them when they step out and take a stand on those shaky limbs that the Republicans and MSM have been sawing through over the past few years.

So in this Congress, I'm resolving to take every opportunity to tell my representatives when they do something I disagree with, but I'm also going to make a special effort to encourage them when they do something I agree with. And I'm kicking myself for not having done so in the past. New beginnings for all of us, perhaps.

The Iraq invasion was *NEVER* about liberation, and I'm getting sick of revisionist history that spews the B*sh party line to try to make it go down in history as such.

Even Michael Moore is calling it a war of liberation in his latest letter, for Gawd's sake. And the BBC's doing the same thing.

Now, I know I'm getting old and my memory's not what it used to be, but I distinctly remember Bush, Cheney, Blair, et al, hard-selling the invasion by telling Congress, Parliament, and the American & British people that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, posed an immediate threat to us, and had ties to al-Qaeda.

Those were lies.

The Iraq war was based on lies, and it had absolutely fuck-all to do with "liberating" the Iraqi people.

We must never, EVER forget this, and we must stop allowing anyone to spin it in any other way.