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For those hoping that a second term would cool the seething resentment of George Bush and his supporters over having to live in a democratic society,

Don't you have this backwards? Bush and the GOP won the election, right? Why in the world would they be objecting to living in a "democratic society?"

Its the left that is truly outraged about having to live in a democratic society. You're the ones whose collective jaws dropped when all those right-wing fanatics came out of the woodwork to outvote you. "Why, that's intolerable! We're smarter than they are, better educated, and now they control the Presidency and Congress. They think that gives them the right to enact their agenda, but they're just overlooking the fact that our wisdom means their votes shouldn't count. They may be in the majority, but that's really just a big mistake, because polls show people really don't like them."

Too bad, sport. We have elections to determine the direction this country will take, and you guys lost. For some odd reason, you think that our winning the election really doesn't mean much, and that its "antidemocratic" for us to wieled our majority status as if we actually won or something. Har-har.

As for your comments about Waxman, it never ceases to amaze me how you folk scream "censorship" or "antidemocratic" or "intolerant" whenever one of your own gets criticized for the content of his political speech. I always thought such criticism itself was political speech, but whatever. What amazes me is you level those charged without looking in the mirror and seeing the things you've said about Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Scalia, DeLaw, Frist, or whomever. Compare what's been said about Waxman by private individuals over some of the things that have been written by professional journalists about some Republican leaders.

Apparently, your rules of political debate are that you are permitted to make nasty personal attacks that demonize Republicans -- that's part of "fair political debate", right? But when the same comes right back at you, its an antidemocratic, fascist outrage.

Most Republicans are willing to play with the gloves either on, or off. You guys apparently believe that a fair fight is us wearing gloves, and you not. No thanks.

I only have one small addition to your statement.
You said, "We have elections to determine the direction this country will take."
It seems to me that the direction was decided a little over 200 years ago with the adoption of the Constitution. Until recently, the only quibble was how to go in that direction. Lately, however, the liberals have been fighting tooth and nail to take us in a different direction, one confirmed by history to be wrong. Now the elections are to try to keep us going in the direction that we know always works, or to take a sharp left turn to our downfall.