A Beating Richly Deserved

This is old news, but we're just now catching up on our reading ... Michael Moore's Stupid White Men.

Moore included a blistering tongue-lashing for the Donkey Party in a chapter titled "Democrats, DOA."

Won't quote the whole thing but a few salient passages, all of which we find ourselves ruefully agreeing with:

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"...our real problem, ultimately, isn't Bush -- it's the Democrats. Bush would be paralyzed if the Democrats started behaving like a true opposition party....

"And for the better part of Bush's first year, it's Democrats who have been Bush's willing and necessary partners to madness....

"Bill after bill that came from the Bush-occupied White House to the Congress found scores of Democrats with open arms. The Bush tax cut bill passed overwhelmingly with Democratic support, even though the bill was designed to benefit the richest 10 percent in the country....

"...not a single Democratic senator was willing to filibuster the way a rabid Republican would have if a Democratic President had selected such a fringe radical as Ashcroft to be attorney general....

"But that's the difference -- Democrats have no spine. They always back down. There is no one on their side of the aisle willing to go to battle for us the way a Tom Delay or Trent Lott will for his side. Those guys will not rest until they win, no matter how many bodies the road is littered with...."

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And Moore was writing this even before the War Powers Act, before the Medicare bill, before the umpteenth tax cut for the rich, before Zell Miller made a complete ass of himself, before the slipping in of the Patriot Act II into the Intelligence Authorization Act (see below).

My gawd! When are we going to fight back?

If Americans see that the Dems won't even stand up for themselves, why would they trust us to stand up to the terrorists of the world?

And this is precisely why Howard Dean has caught fire. He's standing up for "the Democratic wing of the Democrat Party," and he looks like he might be able to go toe to toe with any world leader.