In their place we have political parties who don’t stand on principal, but rather take polls and do market research to find out what stands they should take in order to attract the most voters

Exactly.

No actualy, I’ve been outraged for years. My heritage is Democratic (in my younger days I started to set up a campaign for Assembly from my district, going so far as speaking with then-Gov. Pat Lucey about supporting me — he refused and supported my opponent, a major reason why I shelved the bid) but I’ve gone cantankerously independent for the last decade or so. The days of real leaders like Mike Mansfield and Bill Proxmire are gone. In their place we have political parties who don’t stand on principal, but rather take polls and do market research to find out what stands they should take in order to attract the most voters. Blecch. A pox on both their houses.

In this particular instance I could quote Aaron Sorkin: “You’re supposed to be the Good Guys. You should act like it.”

And yes, my blogroll is way out of date. For example, I dropped the Haydens from my reading list long ago, back when they agreed with Kos that it was more important to be fast than factual and further, that this was a satisfactory justification to harass school officials. (Just one more exaple of the shrillness that drove me out of the Democrats.) I’m doing a lot of revamping, and the blog will be moving to its own domain shortly. I’ve been freeloading long enough; it’s time for Theodicius to stand on his own two feet.I’ll catch up with you then.

Amen.

The thing I get a kick out of right now is the GOP trying to suddenly label the Democratic support of Lamont as the ‘end of bipartisanship’. Hello!? Bipartisanship has been dead for the last five years, but all the sudden, it’s the fault of the Democrats?

It’s classic GOP tactics. Blame the other side for what they’ve been doing all along, and get defesnsive when we start playing the same game they are. Democrats tried being avoid with the ‘partisan’ label for the past five years, and we got our collective asses handed to us as a result. Forgive me if we take a different approach and start playing on the same level the Republicans have been for that timeframe :)

My family has Democratic connections going way back, and frankly I was ashamed at some of the crap I’ve seen going on lately in the name of the Democratic party. The howler monkeys on both sides of the aisle are making it nigh-unto impossible to get anything done anymore.

There’s an excellent opening here, but the kind of shrill yammering I’ve heard from several Democratic quarters is going to close the door, and quickly.