Ranting to /dev/null

Blinded by hatred...

...is what today's Democrats and lefties seem to be. It doesn't matter what the Bush administration proposes: they're so embroiled in their own personal sense of self-righteous indignation that they'll oppose him on any front, even when proposing initiatives that are consistent with their party platform, like, say, removing a genocidal dictator from power.

They are, in fact, so blinded by their own hatred that they pounce on anything and everything that might possibly make the president or any of his allies look bad, especially Karl Rove, who so easily raked them over the coals twice in a row.

But now it looks as if it was the lefties and media who "outed" Valarie Plame. After seeing so much media space, liberal indignation, and bile-laden vitriol, it's going to be a sweet, sweet pleasure to see them all eat crow.

I sincerely believe that this country needs a solid and effective opposition party. I also sincerely believe that this should not, and indeed cannot, be the Democrats or their allies on the old left. What we need is for the Republican party to split down the middle with libertarian moderates on one side and the neo-con crypto-theocrats on the other. At the moment, that's the only discussion of any value that's happening in Washington. The sooner the DNC is ground into dust, the better, and this sort of thing only helps. I can only hope they'll keep it up, because at this rate, they've not got a prayer.