"I'd like to see triangulation get so small that we could drown it in the bathtub."
-- The Anti-Grover

   Are Democrats looking for ways to preemptively capitulate on issues that have not even come up yet? What kind of margin would cause them to NOT cave? 
   Lieberman's Free Pass is beginning to look like EVERYONE'S Free Pass. Maybe accountability will come in January, but it's not looking good right now.
   That should come as no surprise, given Obama's overt appeals to "changing the tone" and ending the rampant partisanship in Washington.
   A worthy aim, but the best way to change the tone is for the grown-ups to take their toys away.
   That is not likely to happen.
   Matthew Yglesias made an important point when Reagan's former Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein came out for Obama.

On some level, I sort of regret seeing people like this hop onto the Obama bandwagon. Realistically, at some point the Republicans are going to come back into power and I'd prefer that to be a less-crazy version of the GOP.

      I Disagree. I firmly believe progressives should cherry-pick every moderate out there, and along the way they should remind everyone of the purges and retribution suffered by moderate Republicans during the past eight years.
   Leave them with Rush, Hannity, Palin and Stormfront.
   Let's not forget these people were too radical for John Ashcroft, who was asked to sign off on domestic surveillance while lying in a hospital bed.

"He lifted his head off the pillow and in very strong terms expressed his view of the matter, rich in both substance and fact, which stunned me," Comey said.

   And if Ashcroft seems an unlikely defender of civil liberties, that's because he isn't.
   As for Hillary as SOS, I just hope she has learned a thing or two since her efforts to fix the healthcare system were torpedoed by the kind of people who later became her friends.
   I've heard it said that, when it comes to political power, people "don't want to live in a one-paper town."
   But if it's, say, a McClatchy paper and the Washington Times, one paper is fine with me.
   Given the recent election results and circumstances facing the US, this is no time for blatant double standards.
   Journalistic "objectivity" is giving the truth and the lies equal time. Bipartisanship is strictly a Democratic Party effort. Accountability only applies to public school teachers. "Tax and spend" and "flip-flopper" can only be used in reference to Democrats. Upward redistribution of wealth is called "wealth creation," and the term "wealth redistribution" itself is only used when an ailing grandmother wants to eat something besides cat food, although the official narrative will be about "welfare queens."
   And so on.
   Reagan deceived Democrats into handing over their pensions, union memberships, solid health coverage et al, and now Obama has repeatedly been compared to the "great communicator."
   Except this is supposed to be a Democratic version of consensus-building.
   Unfortunatley, that always means a lurch to the right and collective amnesia regarding the actions of the all-too-recent past, voters be damned.