This is a good idea: Attack Ron Wyden, one of the few consistent opponents to the war in the Senate.

What's really going on, of course, is an extention of Karl Rove's particular brand of divide-and-conquer. Nothing new with that, and the Dems and other lefties make it so easy. We all have our particular issues and our own form of morality, and most of us are pretty adamant about those things we know to be True. We get offended easily when someone violates our Truth.

And Rove has led the Bushies to violate every Truth, or truth, or hope or wish, that anyone on the left holds dear in a manner that has been the political equivalent of rape. It's not been mere partisan politics; it's been brutal and violent and with the single-minded intent to destroy two-party politics. Rove's mission has been simple: to establish American power as the ruling power in the world and to make George Bush the first American emperor.

Not that he's had much opposition. The Democratic leadership in 2000 and 2004 was soft, stupid and complicit with their own sins. The mainstream media long ago abandoned its responsibilities. Republicans got so drunk with power, they forgot they had taken oaths to uphold the Constitution. The country, and the world has been horribly brutalized thanks to Rove's successful schemes, and the level of frustration and anger across the country is probably the highest its been since the height of the Vietnam War protests.

But there have been a few people who've stood tall, and Ron Wyden is among them. Unfortunately, he's not been able to turn his single vote into the 60 needed to end the war, impeach Bush or perform the other works of magic demanded by people as rightfully angry as they are politically stupid. Taking out their anger on Wyden is just daft. It's not like he's been mealy-mouthed in this opposition to the war. He's been absolutely steadfast. But until January, he was in the minority, and even today, there are not enough Democrats, not to mention Republicans, who will stand with him to end the war.

Politics is not about morality, not in the way many people want it to be. Conservatives want government to be a branch of the church, and liberals want it to be the living embodiment of Jefferson's soul. Politics is where we find the compromises necessary to let diverse people live together in peace and mutual prosperity. Morality belongs within the person, and the person acts upon that morality while involved in politics. As soon as we try to make our politics become our morality, we've failed as democrats. My morality will never be reflected in politics, not the extent I demand of myself to make that morality authentic. Politics must be amoral or else it becomes tyranny.

And that's another reason why impeachment is the wrong approach. The calls for impeachment are ones that come from a moral perspective: What Bush has done is wrong. It's being couched in legal language, but the anger that flows demonstrates that this is anything but legal. It's a righteous anger driving the demand for impeachment, not a legal or political anger. Because seen politically, impeachment is a non-starter — and those who are demanding impeachment are quick to attack anyone trying to pose a political objection.

I don't care for anyone's morality being shoved down my throat, and I really dislike stupid politics that attacks our best friends in Congress.