The Only Time in My Life I've Stopped Traffic

(photo: Daniel Mintz)

About 80 of us took to the Micheltorena Street overpass during rush hour last night to express our great displeasure with Bush's veto of the Iraq Accountability Act. The event, put together by the local Operation Democracy chapter of MoveOn, certainly got a lot of attention from drivers on the 101, plus plenty of press--we were on KEYT, KSBY, KCOY and in most of the papers.

Which gets to something really scary. Many of us have sat around wondering who the 28% are who still think President Bush is doing a good job despite starting an illegal war, bungling the war, approving torture, ignoring the Constitution, using U.S. attorneys for partisan purposes, doing nothing for New Orleans, doing nothing for the environment...well, I know I've left things out but it's hard to provide a comprehensive list of this White House's horrors. Turns out at least two of those 28% are right here in Santa Barbara, or at least leaving comments on a website here--check out the Independent's story on the protest and read the comments. You'll know who George is, but the other crazies I take no responsibility for. Part of me keeps hoping they are some lefties doing it as a joke, becuase if they're not, they are jokes. I mean, talk about reductive, "These people have a mental disorder, and it's called liberalism"?