What's missing from the convention

I've watched the Democratic convention this week, and the parts I've seen so far (which are the parts PBS opts to show) haven't been truly miserable. They've generally been average. (Ted Kennedy's speech was certainly above average though.)

(This fact does not excuse the choice by the networks - public and commercial alike - to completely ignore the Green convention.)

But you know what the Democratic convention needs?

It needs a speech that refers to the Patriot Act as the Idiot Act.

Seriously. It needs a rip-roaring populist speech in which the speaker comes right out and calls it that. It could be a politician, a union leader, an average worker, or anyone. But they need to call it the Idiot Act.

I'm getting an idea here of what I'd say: "We must have the courage to repeal the Idiot Act! And we must have the will to wad up that Idiot Act and throw it right at the Republicans until paper cuts mar their oozing faces! Then we need to stomp on the Idiot Act until it becomes compost!"

I don't expect such an incisive speech, because the Democrats have to please the DLC that helped pass the stupid Idiot Act. The party would certainly be more credible if it purged the DLC from the big tent. (The fact that it didn't is why I switched to the Greens.)