Pompous liberal is right; the gutlessness and craven collaboration of the Democratic Party with the most extreme, fanatical elements of the Republican Party has absolutely nothing to do with the absence of a filibuster-proof majority. Funding the Iraq war? FISA? The Military Commissions Act? The worthless Democratic Party did nothing about these Bush-led legislative monstrosities when all they needed was 40 votes in the Senate, not 60. Are we supposed to imagine that when the time comes to restore habeas corpus or expose illegal Bush wiretapping or vote on a liberal Supreme Court nomination that the Republicans will have any problem peeling off a couple of reliable Democratic rats like Jay Rockefeller or Ben Nelson? Hell, the Democrats couldn't even pass an increase in the goddamn minimum wage without tossing in a couple of tax cuts as a sop to the Republican right. After all, the only political principle with any real meaning to the Democratic leadership is demonstrating their servility and abject obedience to their Republican masters, hoping to spare themselves the terrifying accusation of "partisanship."

No, the key to realizing a progressive agenda isn't obtaining some illusory super-majority, but taking control of the Democratic Party apparatus, the same way the Republican Hitler Youth like Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff delivered the party to Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay. There is thus nothing more important than purging the party of its principal collaborators such as Nancy Pelosi and rancid Harry Reid, even if it means replacing them with Republicans. Likewise, the Democrats must finally rid themselves of the DLC rat patrol, the very existence of which is designed to blunt all progressive influence, and insure that nothing threatens ultimate control of the party by the insurance industry, telecoms, Wall Street, and all the other corporate interests that dominate our political institutions.

But you won't have all the qualifications of Pig until you're willing to prove you love power more than your own children by throwing your pregnant daughter under the bus, exposing her to the ridicule and contempt of the entire American public. You also need a large base of desperate, infatuated fanboys like THawk7, who spend their days beating off in their mother's basements while writing 6 or 7 letters-to-the-editor per day calling liberals doodyheads.

With every passing day, this election increasingly comes to resemble some political paradise, with Sarah Palin the most generous gift ever to waft out of the cesspool of Republicanism. True, there have been numerous political figures in American history as dishonest, as ruthlessly ambitious, as despicable and fanatical and every bit as willing to treat their own families like human garbage to be used for their self-serving political agendas. Indeed, there are even a number of current members of the Republican Party that are as fantastically stupid and ignorant as Palin: Steven King, Michelle Bachmann, not to mention, of course, the Imbecile-in-Chief himself. The list just goes on and on.

But there is no one – NO ONE – that has ever been as much of a buffoon as Sarah Palin, like putting a chimpanzee in a pink tutu and inviting it to high tea at Buckingham Palace. Palin is a clown that has turned the entire Republican Party into a laughingstock, an object of pure ridicule. Just watch as the humiliation of being associated with Palin becomes too excruciating for any Republican with the tiniest shred of integrity or self-respect to bear. Every day brings the defection of more and more people who have spent their entire lives and careers in service of the Republican Party but can’t take the embarrassment any more, former stalwarts like Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, Colin Powell, Charles Krauthammer, hell, even Christopher Buckley; that’s right, BUCKLEY!! And as more and more rats scamper off the ship of the Republican Party, the base become ever more wild with indignation and rage, no longer sure where to direct their pathetic feelings of bitterness and betrayal. Finally, Republicanism is left in its purest form, an incoherent ideology of pure hate embraced by no one but the most loathsome dregs of American society.

Enjoy the next few weeks!! I know I will.

What the Obama campaign damn well better be doing is preparing to place massive numbers of feet on the ground in every contested state across the country in the immediate aftermath of the election. Remember the Republican Hitler Youth flown in en masse to Florida to intimidate election officials during the recount, before the Surpreme Court ended the process with its successful putsch? If the Democratic Party permits that scenario to take place again (an act of abject cowardice and servility of which the gutless, craven Democrats are perhaps more capable than any organization on the planet Earth) they'll have no one to blame but themselves. Sometimes democracy needs to be defended with more than words, and if the diseased fringe of racist neocon authoritarian religious fanatics tries to steal yet another election, we better be good and ready to crack some Republican skulls.