The calm, sedate and always remarkable Fixer makes a point about today's Democrats.

What's even more unconscionable is Barack Obama, sitting there and letting Tim Russert link the Dems to Harry Belafonte, a question Timmy would never have asked a white man.

We have idiots like Lieberman and Nelson, who suck up to the Repubs at every turn, just to protect their own positions.

...Hillary Clinton, the person who was most harmed by the Repub juggernaut...

...Harry Reid, a guy who talks a very good line but backs down when it counts.

So, I ask the Dems, do you actually think you're gonna win anything in November? Do you actually think there will be any change in the status quo at this time next year? At the rate you're going, the future looks dismal. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Fixer, of course, is right on. You got a quarter inch group right in the X-ring, bud. It's time for these Dems to either start bringing their guns to the knife fight or to step aside and let some Americans with testicles take up the fight.

I like to think that this pack of cringing dogs has just been beaten down so often and so viciously that they're incapable of standing up on their hind legs and snarling back. To my simple mind the only alternative is that they've long since been bought off by the Oligarchs, and they're going through the motions of being an Opposition Party while waiting for that monthly cash envelope.

I refuse to have my nation sold, stolen, or given away. I refuse to have rich assholes destroy what a group of men who stood up to the British Empire have built. I am an American, goddammit, and America is a nation of, by, and for the people, not some privileged fools who would squander our birthright for profit, and I will protect our way of life until my last breath. I took an oath to that effect almost 26 years ago and I still honor it. If the Demoratic Party can't do it, I will.

Politics isn't just a game; it's a way of life. Either you're a professional, and do it properly, or you're an amateur and loaf along in order to get along.

CAN'T ANYONE HERE PLAY THIS GAME?