Greenwald discusses nicely something I was kicking around with various people at Yearly Kos.
It's important to remind ourselves, and everyone, what these very serious people have been responsible for over the past few years. It's one thing to have unelected secretive Wise Old People having such tremendous influence when they're not doing such a bad job. But they did a bad job. There were consequences of that. Hundreds of thousands of people have died and there's an unimaginable level of pain and suffering. Still the very wise people of Washington do little but try to hold on to their reputations and the power and status of their class.
