Democracy in Action

With every failure to follow through on their promises to curtail the war in Iraq, the Democrats are having one effect, at least: they're making me think that perhaps Paul, or even Kucinich, are a viable alternative. They're letting Bush walk all over them, and though they've won some things, they are losing, heavily, on the big one. Given that a Republican minority is cohesive enough to block pretty much anything it doesn't want to see, nothing short of a Democratic landslide is going to give the next president -- whom I assume will be Democratic -- the ability to make substantive changes. Unless, of course, he or she adopts the weasel tactics used by the current weasel-in-chief. They do seem to work...