I attended last night’s Moveon rally against President Bush Veto in union square along with perhaps 500 others. If you want to see what it looked like check out Beth Zucker’s photos here . I’m in a few of them. It was, I thought, for the gravity of the situation, a sparsely attended and unfocused event; some of which is my fault: I should have done more to make it better attended; some of it is your fault.

The House had, hours before, been unable to overcome the President’s veto and rumors abound that Congressional Democrats are searching for a way to cave into our nutty decider-in-chief. The Washington Post, for example, leads Thursday with this under the headline “Congressional Democrats Back Down on Iraq Timetable.” While I cannot plot strategy for Democrats or the anti-war movement as a whole, I can think and act locally. We, New Yorkers, have two convenient targets of opportunity. Peter King and Vito Fossella, loyal allies and supporters of Mr. Bush’s immoral war, voted in support of Mr. Bush and to sustain his veto. How can we help these two partisans of war to an early retirement? On the way home, I stopped at Baskin Robbins, had a 31 cent scoop of pistachio ice cream.