This is a worthwhile point to chew on. While I'm not sure how comfortable I am with the new Google developments, they said something I sympathized with in their blog post this week:

"...we urge you to take your views directly to your Senators and Representatives in Washington."

(http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/facts-about-o...)

I felt like they were saying, "Help us out here folks. It was hard enough to get to this watered down policy."

Again, I'm not defending their end proposal, but we do need to spend equal energy presenting our case our representatives as we to Google (when it comes to policy).