Letters to the Editor
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Insulting the Intelligence of Sheep
I would say that the Congressional Democrats are sheep being meekly led to the slaughter by the Beltway Opinion Elites, except that I hesitate to insult the intelligence of sheep this way.
This behavior could at least be rationalized to some extent prior to the 2006 election. I find it very hard, however, to analyze the results of the 2006 election in any way that lends credence to the notion that the voters did not turn out a single Democratic incumbent and overturned Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress on the basis that they wanted Democrats to cozy up to the scandal-plagued Republican Party Congressional leadership and a President almost as unpopular as Nixon when he resigned in disgrace.
I recognize that this did not stop the Beltway Opinion Elites from picking 2 or 3 new Democratic representatives from places like southern Indiana and western North Carolina, neither area notable for its fealty to the party of FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton, and proclaiming them illustrative of the victory, but one would think that party professionals would read the election returns with greater acuity.
There are still far too many Democratic senators and representatives who learned little or nothing from 12 long years in the minority. Their opinions remain more in synch with Joe Lieberman's than with the rest of us, DFH's with healthy bank accounts, spreading paunches, receding hair and increasing anger and disbelief at how dysfunctional our republican form of government has become.