It's the open-eyed Democrats vs. the deep-in-denial Republicans. I wish he'd offered cures for the Republicans' mental disorder and for the Democrats' crippling cowardice.

And then there's that pesky post by Anne Kim in the Middle Class section entitled "Stimulating Prosperity Not Pessimism".   ;She decries progressives' assumed joy at Bush's economic mess and proposing "permanent" middle class tax cuts.  What in the hell does "permanent" mean?  Taxes are supposed to go up and down.  And she's worried that we migh be happy that Bush is trying to flush our economy down the drain?  I'm fuckin' furious!  Fear is not necessarily a bad thing.  Sometimes it keeps you from getting bitten by snakes or from falling into bottomless pits -- or from wasting huge amounts of money with the phoney Bush/P elosi/Reid "stimulus" package.

And don't forget that wierd post by Matt Bennett in the National Security section asking us to have pity on the telecoms but ignoring the fact that that the telecoms were asked to spy on Americans before 9-11 -- and to do it without a warrant.

And then there's Rachel Laser, naively worried that if Democrats didn't support the nice-sounding "Reducing the Need for Abortions Initiative" they would sound like they "are just about free love, not morality".  But as with every failed attempt to work with Republicans this one had a devastating impact, too: it ended up increasing funding for the $1.5 billion-wasting abstinence-only "education" program.  And that "initiative" still won't get politicians out of a person's private medical decisions.

I have no idea why Third Way calls themselves "progressive".&nb sp; Sure, they offer some ideas that progressives do find attractive.  But there's a lot of really dumb stuff mixed in with it.

by Juarez Traveller on 02/17/2008 12:11:59 AM EST