During former president, Bill Clinton's second term, he was assaulted with attack politics and nit-picked to such a degree that he was dangerously distracted from protecting America and our national interests against repeated acts of terrorism, which left us open to the 9/11 attacks.

Now, in President Bush's second term, he and his administration are being relentlessly nit-picked and attacked to such an extent that it has emboldened our terrorist enemies, exacerbated the war in Iraq, and it is making us more vulnerable than ever.

Adding cheap shots (disguised as serious allegations) at Bush's handling of the Katrina Hurricane disaster, at his right-hand-man, Karl Rove, and the Republican leaders in the Congress -- which were then hyped by nagging news media -- amounts to little more than self-serving hate-mongering by political gangs of small people.

Reasonable criticism is one thing. But if childish political revenge and the fierce battle over power in Washington (at any cost) isn't stopped, the American people will surely suffer the consequences. Politics has become an unconscionable, deadly business. It's time for reasonable people with common sense to exercise more democracy in the coming elections.