To once frequent Cafe voices, who have been in hiding in recent weeks,  "Ally ally in free. Come out, come out, wherever you are!"

In honor of the funny names of the missing, one of my favorites from Dr. Seuss' Sneeches:

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?

Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!

This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt.
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate . . . .
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late.

[Edited to show source, copied from here, and to remove the spurious link that was behind Zanzibar.]

Pictures matter.

The Democrats should "recolor" the US map with a topography of change. Show the strength of the change vote as a darker color, the equivalent of moutains of increasing height. Democratic votes are altitude with a decreasing amount of color as Republican votes increase.

Country and voting lines should be dropped. The red blue map is polarization and shows identity by state.

The topographical map shows the Democrats as strong - increasing amounts of color to represent the strength of Democratic voting with decreasing color for Republican, a less strong image.

Just a thought, a picture is worth a 1000 words but just in case Democrats should drop red-blue from their vocabulary.

Contrary to conventional wisdom George Bush woke up this morning with more power because he has one less restraint on the Presidency.

We are about ready to watch George Bush govern without legislation and in spite of Congress. He will show that he doesn't need a rubber stamp Congress, he will just work around Congress. He will increase the numbers of executive orders, recess appointments, and signing statements that redefine legislation passed by a non-rubber stamp Congress.

With bipartisan words in public Bush will work with Cheney, Rove and other believers to continue to work to achieve what they want.   

More from Peter Wallsten, LATimes:

[anti-tax activist Grover Norquist] predicted that Bush would now govern largely through executive orders rather than working with Congress on legislation. The president could, for example, use orders to lighten the load of capital gains taxes by changing how they are calculated...