YES, THE DEMOCRATS ARE BETTER THAN THE REPUBLICANS BUT THAT'S LIKE COMPARING A "D" AND AN "F"

I've been bursting at the seams all day today, just furious about the pathetic Democratic congressional caucus' lame, lame, lame reform bill. I fucking hate them. They are dealing with the Abramoff scandals as a way to make points against their Republican opponents, not as an opportunity to try to actually make the country better. This morning started off with a Diageo/Hotline Poll in my in-box that proves exactly what it should: "In the wake of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s indictment and growing corruption concerns on Capitol Hill, a majority of American voters believe corruption is an equal problem among both political parties (72%). Most voters think politicians become corrupted by Washington (55%), rather than starting out corrupt (27%), and partisan voters tend to view their own party favorably; only 5% of Republicans and only 1% of Democrats say their respective party is more 'corrupt.'” (The DWT Art Department goes to that college where the frat boys have been beating sleeping homeless people and he has a class with someone posing as a "professor" who claims there is no connection between Abramoff and the Republican Party. I'm sure Instructor Brainless isn't the only person in America that stupid and resistant to reality.)

Anyway, even as I absorbed the implications of the poll and got myself in a lather about the Democratic congressional leaders' disgraceful "solution" to the worst scandal in American political history, I noted that the same fucked-up Democrats searched and searched for a monstrosity to respond to Bush's State of the Union Speech. I guess Zell Miller is still in the mental institution but they did come up with someone who should do the trick well enough-- if the trick is to convince people the Democrats are pretty much as horrible as the Republicans-- Virginia's new governor, Tim Kaine.

Today Arianna Huffington makes the point that this is proof positive that the Democrats are utterly clueless. Instead of choosing someone who could offer a vision for American security in contrast to Bush's abject failures (on a day bin-Laden is threatening another 9-11), the Democrats announce the pathetic Kaine, who, in his inaugural address, as Arianna points out, compared "the cause of Virginians like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to our cause in Iraq: 'They stood here at a time, just as today, when Virginians serving freedom's cause sacrificed their lives so that democracy could prevail over tyranny.'" Kaine offers up one Bush talking point after another, which is bad enough for red Virginny but absolutely outrageous for the United States of America. Kaine's first public act as governor was to declare he'd sign a bill calling for a referendum for a Constitutional amendment forbidding gay marriage or even economic fairness for gay people. As far as I'm concerned Tim Kaine is a Republican-- a homophobic war hawk. Screw him and the damn politicians who try to force this dreck down our throats.

This morning Jane at FireDogLake made the logical suggestion that the Democrats put up Jack Murtha to respond to Bush. Which damn idiots chose Kaine? I'd love to know.