Nope no trolling. However, I do wish you would format your posts a bit better. They are difficult for this old man to read.

We were all lulled into resignation. The democratic party took the easy route, sighed, and gave up.

Yes. I couldn't f'ing believe it at the time.

Thanks for bringing up Al Gore and the 2000 election, "Present." Your point is very important.

Lincoln Chafee describes the complacency inside Congress in his new book. Here's a must-hear interview with Terry Gross and an excerpt:

We Republicans had won the presidency by a single vote in the Electoral College and a single vote in the Supreme Court. In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. For the first time in a century we had a Senate split down the middle, 50-50, with a Republican vice president available to break a tie in our favor. That whisker-thin margin of victory had real consequences to my way of thinking.

It meant that our small club of five moderate Republican votes would be vital to President-elect Bush if he had any hope of getting his legislative initiatives through.

That was why Vice President-elect Richard Cheney came to our lunch that day: Not to say he needed us, but to tell us that he and George W. Bush were in charge and no one else.

In steady, quiet tones, the Vice President-elect laid out a shockingly divisive political agenda for the new Bush administration, glossing over nearly every pledge the Republican ticket had made to the American voter. President-elect Bush had promised that healing, but now we moderate Republicans were hearing Richard Cheney articulate the real agenda: A clashist approach on every issue, big and small, and any attempt at consensus would be a sign of weakness. We would seek confrontation on every front. He said nothing about education or the environment or health care; it was all about these new issues that were rarely, if ever, touted in the campaign. The new administration would divide Americans into red and blue, and divide nations into those who stand with us or against us. I knew that what the Vice President-elect was saying would rip the closely divided Congress apart. We moderates had often voted with President Clinton on things that powerful Republican constituencies didn't like: an increase in the minimum wage, a patients' bill of rights, and campaign finance reform. Mr. Cheney knew this, but he ticked off the issues at the top of his agenda and did it fearlessly. It made no difference to him that we were potential adversaries; he was going down his to-do list and checking off Confrontation Number 1.

Senator Arlen Specter spoke first. As the most junior member, I would have my say last, if at all. I could hardly sit still as I waited to hear my respected friend wade into this outrageous manifesto.

And then, in a moment I can only describe as infuriating, Senator Specter took no leadership role in representing the moderate point of view. He acquiesced, and others followed his example.

As each of my colleagues spoke in turn, I waited for one of them to push back. Surely one of them would have the presence of mind to say, Whoa! Time out! What are you talking about, Mister Vice President? You weren't elected to scrap international agreements. You never said to the voters: Elect us and we promise to bring back deficit spending and drive the next generation into debt.

But no one resisted. We sat there and listened as Mr. Cheney made divisive pronouncements of policy that would come as a complete surprise to many of the Americans who had voted to elect the Bush/Cheney ticket. I stopped waiting for someone to challenge Mr. Cheney when I saw my Republican friends around the table nodding in agreement as he held forth.

I was at a loss to explain my colleagues' compliant behavior then. I remain so now. It may have been an all-too-human response to the circumstances of the time. Anxious weeks of uncertainty were finally over. Now we knew the outcome of the election. The bitterness of the Florida recount was behind us. My colleagues seemed happy and relieved just to know who was in charge. And they seemed a little awestruck. This is the Vice President of the United States.

Spooky parallels.

I think your avatar just about explains your real POV. Why engage in conversation after that? Coupled with the fact that your post is so laden with ad hominem attacks, what is your real goal besides insult?

Your first comment on your own blog belies this intent.

You're a troll, and someone who is so insecure in the weakness of his argument that he must throw a tantrum, toss an insult because he's so fragile and can't take criticism.

Al Gore would find your silly rant...silly. Listen to Donna Brazille if you want to get an idea of where he'd be coming from. Ridiculous!

You need to stop drinking the Clinton Kool-Aid. Seriously. Hillary agreed to the rules before the primary began. Michigan and Florida violated them. It was those states Democratic parties who disenfranchised their voters not Obama.

However, in the spirit, of fairness. I think both MI and FL should split their delegates 50/50 so they can be seated at the convention.

"You're typical of Obama supporters at TPM: stubbornly literal."

You are stubbornly stupid. Why don't you go away and come back when you learn how to think.