Today, I received a fundraising letter from the DSCC, signed by former President Bill Clinton. If they want my money, they're going to have to earn it, something the Democratic leadership in Congress has so far failed to do. Following up on Democracy for NYC's (www.dfnyc.org) letters to DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen, I sent the following return:

Dear President Clinton:

Last November was the first election night on which I was able to cheer the results in 14 years. After spending the day in GOTV work, I had the pleasure of partying into the night with a large group of progressive political activists. The standard line that night was, “our long national nightmare is over.” Even though we understood that there was still much work to be done, and some things would get worse before they got better, we were (I felt) turning a very sharp corner.

Since then, the folly of the Senate in failing to stop the appointment of Justice Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court has begun to reap long-lasting, horrible results. Recently, in one day, that Court denied free speech to students but upheld them for big-money special interests.