Politically Livid

EVENT

Yesterday, I wrote that the "Republican party this day is perceived as active, robust, and muscular, as opposed to a Democratic party that is always on the retreat, entrenched in big cities surrounded by seas of red. At some point (because this is a democracy), if democrats are to win back the influence they've lost, they're going to have to be seen as willing to fight for their constituencies."

"Even if they stay up all damn night."

I guess our senators were feeling a little sleepy.

I'm disgusted right now. I'm hope, hope for a Dantè's afterlife, where Byrd and Lieberman will encounter a frowning FDR and a grimacing Truman. Oh, it's not like they were so over-the-top progressive. But they certainly realized that victims cannot effectively bargain.

EDIT: These "compromising democrats" are behaving like short-sighted idiots! What assurance has this got them? According to the Times, Frist said '"bad faith and bad behavior" would force him to bring back the nuclear option.'

And then there's Ohio's DeWine:

"If an individual senator believes in the future that a filibuster is taking place under something that's not extraordinary circumstances, we, of course, reserve the right to do what we could have done tomorrow."

Well, how nice that the majority party now has the right to define what's extraordinary.

Meanwhile, Lieberman is bragging that "in a Senate that's become increasingly partisan and polarized, the bipartisan center held." What a comment on the nation: when the bipartisan center holds, the upshot is that prominent democrats give the green light to ultraconservative judges.

When, by the way, was the last time the Republicans voluntarily curtailed and quartered one of their 133 year old political levers?

Fight, will you?!
Will you fight?!
Fight!!!

EDIT: I don't follow baseball that closely, but when a team with considerable resources finds that there are important things that its players cannot or will not do (like hit or catch the ball), they generally try to trade for better players.

Keep this in mind as the next primaries approach. Keep a sharp eye out for new players.

We seem to be struck with the '03 Tigers today.

Actually, I take it back. The Tigers won a few games at the very end.