Which Do You Think Can Win?: “What the Democratic hiearchy wants is an election about nothing. A giant ‘You are about to give George Bush Absolute Power for Four More Years. Are you sure? (YES) (NO)’ Believing, quite rightly that most people will click ‘No’ at this point. But beyond that, the Democratic Party is primarily a mutual career protection institution, a kind of ‘Fraternal Association of Failed Republicans of America’. This FAFRA version of the party wants the same things the Republicans want: lower taxes, regime change in Iraq, a drug company benefit funded through medicare, a bigger military, a more militarized nastier America, progressive reduction in access to abortion – just read Her Royal Clintoness’ actual pronouncements and you have a pretty good idea of what FAFRA looks like: Bush lite. Tastes late, less shilling.

This isn’t what the party base wants, but the party base is so abused that it is lining up behind it, willing to get screwed over by their leadership, because they are realizing that the alternative to Bush lite, is getting Bush whacked. Finally an election where the slogan of the Democratic hierarchy of the last 10 years: ‘Vote for us, serfs – or it’s so much the worse for you’ can actually work.” (BoP)