Keeping the heat on!

Digby has a beautiful concluding paragraph to a recent post:

Evidently, this is another of the new Village edicts -- the president tells the press and the congress whom they may or may not speak to. If he withholds his permission, then that's that. And it looks as though the press and the congress are inclined to go along, which one would normally think is counter to their own interests. But it isn't. Their interests are in keeping the Village secure, not in keeping our democracy secure. So naturally they are more worried about outsiders trashing the place than they are about insiders trashing the constitution.

Well put Digby!! Although there are a few exceptions in Congress to the above rule. Those of us living outside the BeltWay can't rely on a few brave individuals like Dennis Kucinich to do all our work in this regard. We can demand answers from folks at the state and national level who can't afford to alienate angry citizens beyond a certain point. "Hey, Mr. Governor, what do you think about Bush defying the wishes of the vast majority of Americans in commuting Libby's sentence? Are you disaffiliating from the Republican party? Why not?" If a lot of big-city papers start running stories like this, their Washington desk people will face greater pressure to actually do their job.