On 1/5/06 and 1/9/06 I called Kos a Koward for refusing to support impeachment. Now let me take on Kos about his much-hyped (by him) new book:

The book evolved into a much broader discussion of the nascent people-powered mass movement of the netroots and the grassroots, because the progressive message is likely to emerge from there. It has to come collectively from the party rank and file in all fifty states. The hardest movement-building work is happening in the trenches, outside D.C., and those people are the key to the party's future.

Actually, the hardest movement-building work is happening at ImpeachPAC and AfterDowningStreet.org, but Kos refuses to be part of it - or even to acknowledge it.

We have common principles that bind Democrats from places as diverse as Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Madison, Wisconsin, to places like Big Sandy, Montana, or Raleigh, North Carolina. It is those common principles that need to be teased out, packaged, and delivered in wide public forums.

All of those wonderful principles are utterly and completely useless as long as George Bush and Dick Cheney are in the White House committing war crimes, spying on Americans, and otherwise shredding the Constitution.

If progressives want to have any impact on anything, we must mobilize the 52% majority of Americans who want to impeach Bush. And we must do that NOW.

We don't need lots of issue-pondering meetings to do this. We need to persuade one Member of the House of Representatives to introduce Articles of Impeachment, and then get every other Democrat to support those Articles.

Hey Kos, it's time to get off the fence. Are you on the side of people and the Constitution - or Bush's criminal dictatorship?