Corporate Democrats pretend, ludicrously, that Republican obstructionism is the main problem.

[Savannahmann]

113. We have made the classic error.

I was reading a book, and in it Patriots were described in less than flattering terms. The dedicated patriot had two choices. My country is always right. My country right or wrong.

That could well be applied to core supporters of political parties. My Party is always right, even when they do things that are wrong. My party right or wrong, doesn't matter.

I think we have put party, over principal. I think we have made the classic error. As we approach elections, with that kind of record, how do we describe our beliefs, our ideals? We believe in the party, first and foremost, because we disapprove of the other party. We believe in a womans right to choose, except when it comes to plan B. Then we're fighting to limit a womans right to that particular thing. We believe in diplomacy and negotiation, and if that gets us nowhere in ten minutes, we believe in bombing the crap out of them with drones. We believe in due process of law, except when it seems to get in the way, or we have to do something with the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Our words are very different than the Republicans, our actions are not so much different than Republicans. We can blame them for obstruction, but things we can do, through policy decisions, and directions of the Chief Executive, we don't do. We are so afraid of looking soft on defense, that we make Vlad the Impaler look like a wimp. We are so afraid of looking soft on Crime, we spent an entire weekend debating whether an American Citizen should have due process of law. We are so terrified of looking weak on Homeland Security, that we turn the agents loose if the weatherman predicts rain and it doesn't.

We become that which we oppose, because we are more afraid of being out of power, by doing the right thing, which may be unpopular with the folks who aren't going to vote for us anyway. We drive our own supporters away, because we don't do what we said we would.

So what are we left with? We are left fighting for the party, which has little reason left to fight for.