Well, I can't say whether it is true or not, but in the wake of the stunning upset in the Massachusetts race to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat "independents" are being touted as the group that played the decisive role.

While there may be no "independent" movement, it is interesting to see how they are morphing into the Kingmaker faction in our political system. Of course, the question then becomes: how can independents leverage this to get some of the reforms they might want? This of course assumes the (we) could agree on anything anyway...