What is the point in a multi-year investigation of torture practices of the Bush administration?

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6. I'm a Clinton-era liberal

. . . we were the forefront of political change in that era. We established many important principles which are the bedrock of many important political advances. Certainly, as well, many of our political impulses and actions had a counterproductive effect.

Necessarily, our political aim has been raised higher than that generation of activists and our political allies had striven for. Even though many of those ideals that we ushered into the political mainstream have been corrupted and distorted by slick and compromised politics, there remains the opportunity to build on these realities and craft new campaigns based on our understanding of the shortcomings and shortfalls of our expectations in previous elections.

How far away 2008 seems now from the urgency we felt throughout the Bush years. It's a different status quo that we're fighting now. It's a challenge to move beyond just 'better than Bush' and an urgency to fully establish those ideals we've been working to effect in our political system. We have a new generation of activists who will usher in new political demands, which, in this era, move beyond just jolting the opposition party out of place and seek to motivate our own party to fully effect the changes we want.