Sometimes There's No Need

Those times arise for everybody I suppose when we forego commenting about a subject because somebody else said it so well.

The redoubtable Molly Ivins explains, irrefutably I think, why most of us may not be voting for Democrats this coming November -- those of us who bother to vote at all. Maybe she ought to explain to the Dems in the House and Senate while she's at it, as well as the new candidates standing for the first time this year, that "You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You," or go home alone.

If, by some odd chance, the politicians in the Democratic Party would like to think about becoming relevant again, William Rivers Pitt is on hand to tell them exactly what they need to do.

Of course, if some firebrand like Dean or Nancy Pelosi were to actually suggest a Democratic walkout during the dictator's State of the Onion speech, the party will always be ready to send in the medivac units. Joe Leiberman will come drooping in and splash cold water on the idea, or Joe Biden will be deployed to change the subject and start talking about himself.