The Dems will not agree on a single national message. At least if they have, I haven't heard it.

So I am free to select my own.

It's a formidable challenge. There are way too many targets and sources of grievance to make the choice of which ones to focus on an easy one. Yesterday I ran into a friend who suggested that the party quote Dick Armey saying in the new Isikoff book that supporting the Iraq war (because Cheney seduced him; what is it about Cheney? Is he the world's best liar and salesman, or what?) was the biggest mistake of his life.

That might work--if most of the people reading the bumpersticker or listening on TV knew who Dick Armey was.

So I've settled for simplicity: "Had Enough? Vote Democrat in November."

I ordered the bumpersticker. It goes on my car when it arrives this week.

Last week I put up my bumperstickers for James Webb and Judy Feder, our US Senate and US House candidates. Feder would be a good representative. She has a tough fight against an entrenched incumbent, Republican Frank Wolf. I've sent both of them as much money as I can, as I have to the DNC, the DSCC, the DCCC, Klobuchar, Casey, Lamont and probably Sherrod Brown this week.

My better half is fretting a bit. Perhaps I am giving too much?

I am worried about what this country is going to look like when we come back in the summer of '08 from a stint abroad with our family which begins later this fall. Not to mention what it is going to look like for our kids, now 10 and 8, when they are out of the nest.

She wonders if I am taking too much of this on myself.

My view is that while we are far from rich, we do ok. And most of the rich give to the Republicans. Those of us who are not going to lack food on the table or a roof over our heads have to step up, put our money where our mouths are instead of just complaining about how if only the candidates and party leaders would do what we suggest we'd be where we want to be.

I'm not asking for a damned thing for myself in return. I just want my country back before it's too late.

I don't know. Maybe that makes me not just an American Dreamer but a true believing one.

Our House rep., Frank Wolf, is actually one of the more reasonable Republicans, that being a highly relative concept these days. He's wrong on most of the big things. But he is no raving lunatic. Just wrong. So he must go.

Sorry, Frank Wolf: you're a nice guy. But you picked the wrong political party. It's a bad, bad crowd you hang with. There is nowhere this country can go but further down the tubes so long as your clan is running the show.