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Dispatches from the front indicate that the war goes badly, and our forces have all but flown the white flag. Not the war over there. The war over here.

So, when is the Democratic Party going to grow some? When is it going to rescue us?

When are the changes American voters clearly asked for, over a year ago at the polls in 2006, going to be respected?

When is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi going to get it and put impeachment back on the table for the worst president and vice president in American history?

When is Majority Leader Harry Reid going to trump those sniveling hypocritical Senate Republican obstructionists who dangled the nuclear option when Democrats threatened to filibuster?

When are they going to take a stand that says to the entire country and the world that the U.S. Constitution is no longer subject to executive misinterpretation and is not for sale to the highest bidder?

When will they insist that the law of land not be twisted by reactionary ideologues whose agenda is at odds with the vast majority of Americans?

When will they restore it to its rightful place above everything else — Republican or Democrat; Catholic, Jew, Mormon or Evangelical; socialist or capitalist; oil company or wildlife federation; coal miner or president?

The Constitution is what makes us Americans. But Republicans are intent on wrecking it. They want to spy on you. They want to use your children's children's money to continue to wage an unpopular war for a stubborn lame duck in the Oval Office. They want an elite king, not a president of all the people. They want a corporate-driven, autocrat-enforced theocracy —so long as it's Christian.

No, reform is not good enough anymore. Not when Congress continues to roll over and fund the immoral, illegal and unnecessary occupation of Iraq. Not when the Senate trashes the first sign of an intelligent energy law in more than a decade. Not when the president sings about tax cuts for the rich, while blocking health care for poor uninsured children. Not as thousands are about to loose their homes in this so-called "ownership" society. Not when a senator, Chris Dodd, must take a stand against granting retroactive immunity to those who broke the law with illegal wiretaps. Not when the new attorney general is allowed to waffle on torture. Not when the CIA destroys evidence of its culpability.

We need restoration, not reformation. We need the law of the land back in its rightful place, like the sword of Damocles, hanging over the heads of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and a Republican minority that seeks to rule, not govern. We need to stop once and for all the notions that what's good for ExxonMobil or Halliburton is good for America; that religion is the same as moral governance; that freedom from fear is an alternative to the Bill of Rights; that the president is king.

We are at war. But our greatest enemy is not pesky terrorists. Our real enemies are among us, inside the gates. Time to stop appeasing. Time for Constitution and majority rule — the blue in the red, white and blue.