Senator Reid and Romney's tax returns

At least someone from the Democratic Party is crying foul.

Matt Taibbi thinks that someone should be the president and not surrogates. Fair enough but we are talking about a group of people who could not summon the will to effectively oppose the rush to war or any other disaster thought up by the republicans. The world does look different from the position of responsibility. For the first time in memory Democrats are showing a spine, however tenuously. This should be encouraged, not denigrated. Taibbi may be the roughest hombre on this side of the aisle, but hey man, the bad guys are over there!

Any resistance to the plutocratic world order represented by Mitt Romney should be celebrated. Maybe the evidence is just too damning this time around, or maybe the spin from the pirate class is glaringly obvious to "independents." Whatever the reason, Democrats both in office and private life should support any moves by anyone to stop the jolly bandits from bullshitting their way into power again. We've seen this movie before, it never ends well. The Democratic Party at this point is really a battered shell and any signs of life are to be celebrated, not excoriated. There will be time enough after beating back the extremists of the right to try and nurse liberalism back to health but for now the barbarians are at the gates. Let's set aside the circular firing squad act until after the election.

Sure the Obama administration has been a disappointment on many levels, but what is an objective assessment? The way to make things better is within, not outside of. There are just too many crazy teabaggers ready to slit the republic's throat for reasons that make sense only within their fevered brains. Let's just for once cheer our flawed champions, realistically the alternative is not simply being out of power but being out of time.