No Litmus, No Phenolphthalein

Yeah, I see Harry’s point.  Democrats are one of the top gangs.  It’s about "colors," red versus blue.  Paint your door the wrong color and the militia will probably sweep into town and kill you.  Wear the wrong colors in the wrong part of town and the gang-bangers will probably leave you bleeding in the gutter.

But Harry was answering a question I wasn’t asking.  The Democrats are equal opportunity exploitationists. The Republicans are elitists.  The good old Democratic party would throw big money at a problem and partially solve it to no one’s satisfaction.  Meanwhile, they would line the pockets of their middlemen in the construction trades, trucking, big labor, whatever.  The Republicans skip the solution part and stuff the cash straight into their supporters’ pockets… big oil, big engineering, big banking.  Whatever.

Now the good old Democratic party is trying harder and harder to look like the Republicans and they are trying to squeeze the overhead out of the theft of public funds business, but they don’t have a clue.  The Bush family wrote the book on stealing from the S&L industry for example.  Who are the Dems gonna rip off?  Credit unions?  This country has a two party system on the national level, and for better or worse we’re stuck with a Dem or a Repub in 2024.  Half of us already ignore the privilege of voting because of the circus clowns they put on the ballot.  We disenfranchise ourselves.  But what Obama was saying and I was supporting is that the Republican gang has a well oiled machine speaking with one voice and the Democrats are picky about every little thing.

Obama said, "…attacks on Pat Leahy, Russ Feingold and the other Democrats who, after
careful consideration, voted for Roberts make no sense.  Russ Feingold,
the only Democrat to vote not only against war in Iraq but also against
the Patriot Act, doesn’t become complicit in the erosion of civil
liberties simply because he chooses to abide by a deeply held and
legitimate view that a President, having won a popular election, is
entitled to some benefit of the doubt when it comes to judicial
appointments. Like it or not, that view has pretty strong support in
the Constitution’s design."

Now Russ Feingold has pissed me off twice with his unwillingness to encounter the President.  First he voted for Ashcroft.  Now he votes for Roberts.  I might not vote for him again because of this, but I doubt I’ll vote for his opponent in a general election because he won’t have an opponent who is leftier than him.  Feingold’s idiocy derives from his presidential ambitions, poor deluded numbskull…