When, exactly, is the revolution to start?

Dr. James E. Hansen, a top NASA scientist who knows a thing or two about climate change, reports that the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out or writing about the need to do something immediately to reverse global warming.

The Justice Department lead prosecutor in the Abramoff case, Noel Hillman, has just been kicked upstairs, with Bush appointing him to the federal bench; naturally, he had to step down from an investigation he has headed for two years. Democratic outrage has been characterized by the Administration as "pure politics." Link.

Read Molly Ivins today, for more of what she calls "an entire climate of secrecy and fear being created by this administration." For example:

Some damage is harder to see than others -- and I offer two cases of suppression. First, there's a congressionally mandated report on outsourcing high-tech jobs. It was supposed to be released before the '04 election but wasn't, because it was politically embarrassing. More than a year later, they are still stonewalling, ignoring the federal law that ordered the study done and be released before November 2004.

Second case: According to the Project on Government Oversight, the Congressional Research Service has warned a senior analyst to avoid describing his research findings. The analyst, whose job it is to describe research findings of the nonpartisan service, specializes in separation-of-power issues, but was criticized over a report and comments he made concerning the plight of national security whistleblowers.

You have to wonder whether our country is strong enough to take another three years of what I have come to believe is a concerted effort to dismantle it. And where the hell is the public revulsion? What will it take to mobilize America to get rid of the Gingrich-descended Republicans in Washington, beginning NOW?