Chin up, Radley

TheAgitator.com.

I'm pretty cynical about grassroots efforts to effect change. But what the hell? We don't really have any other choice at this point. And if blogs can motivate the move to get Trent Lott to resign, CBS News staffers fired, and a CNN producer canned, why couldn't we devote as much keyboard-pounding, verbiage, and drumbeat-generating toward getting Congress to put an end to federal agents pointing assault weapons at cancer patients?

One thing FDR and Ronald Reagan had in common was the ability to go over the heads of Congress to the voters: they motivated the grassroots.  Presidents can do that, but so can others as bloggers have shown. 

A democratic republic truly has no leaders, only followers, and they do follow when the public chooses to lead.  The one thing more powerful than money to elected officials is a loud statement from their constituents.