I don't believe I can adequately express in words how heartbroken I feel about my government. I can write words like disappointed, disgusted, sad, angry, abandoned, betrayed and frustrated. Hit the thesaurus, pull out every associated word, throw it in and still it is just words failing to convey the actual physically devastated feeling I have. It's the stone in the gut indignation I have felt at the moments in my life when I've had to end relationships.

Actually, that is exactly what this is. It is a breakup, a divorce. I'm done. We're through. I can't do this anymore. It is so dysfunctional I don't believe it is ever going to change.

I'm a liberal and I have no party. I'm a citizen without representation. Where are my leaders?! The individuals pretending to actually represent altruistic, caring ideals in my nation's capital can drop the act. Just stop. I realize now, you're just cogs in the machine. Drop the facade. You represent the voter in the middle. You know, the ones with shallow, ignorant beliefs. Those people like your pet dog, easily trained, influenced and manipulated. Knee jerk reactionaries easily controlled by simple marketing. The voters that just barely care enough to actually vote. These are the people you love, the people on your mind all the time, the people you'll do anything not to offend. They're the ones that count, the ones you run toward, because they get you elected.

I'm leaving you, and you can keep the dogs too. In fact have you ever realized how dog owners end up looking like their dogs. I think I am finally getting a good look at you, and all I can say is "woof." You even have that rolling over trick down pat.

Hanging chads: woof, roll over.

Corporations writing government policy: woof, roll over.

Made up evidence for the Iraq invasion: woof, roll over.

Surpluses turned into monster deficits: woof, roll over.

Tax breaks for the rich: woof, roll over.

Iraqi oil revenues paying for reconstruction, compassionate conservatism, torture, failed Iraqi reconstruction, not enough troops, Guantanamo, the Bill of Rights, the Prescription Drug Benefits Plan written for the pharmaceutical companies, decimated environmental policy, untraceable Diebold votes in Ohio, ruined international relations, military stop loss, politically outed CIA operatives, the joke that is the Dept. of Homeland Security, FEMA's response to the hurricanes, Al-Qaeda still exists, bin Laden is still out there, Iraq becoming a breeding ground for terrorists, Mission Accomplished, Enron, WorldCom, No Child Left Behind, oil prices, any questioning of Iraq being unpatriotic, sending suspects to foreign countries so they can be tortured, secret CIA prisons, DeLay, Cunningham, Abramoff, corruption, bribery, scandal, unarmored Humvees, no pictures of soldiers' caskets, military recruiters targeting the poor, military recruiters in schools, unwarranted tapping of phone calls and email, uninvolved in Sudan, uninvolved in the Isreali/Palestinian problem, ineffective with North Korea, a radicalized Iran, bankruptcy rules changed to suit credit card companies, predatory lending, thousands of dead US soldiers, tens of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians, toxic Depleted Uranium munitions, cutting VA funding while at war, planning for tactical nuclear options, CIA led coup attempt in Venezuela, unsworn oil executives testifying before Congress, mind numbing trade deficits, exporting US jobs to countries that promote slave labor, sweatshops and almost no worker rights, cutting college loan funding, slow and failing Gulf Coast reconstruction... (all this off the top of my head, forgive me, I know I'm forgetting a lot): woof, roll over

And the capper, the Coup de Gras, the straw that has broken the camel's back: not one, but two, count them two, very young, very white, very male, very ultra conservative Supreme Court Justices.

Well Democrats, at least you have preserved the right to use the filibuster for something really and truly important: woof, roll over.

Its over, I'm done. I don't know what's next, but I'm leaving you.

Bitch.