Hamilton - 1, the Republic - 0

Some 200 years after his death it appears that Alexander Hamilton has finally won. The United States is finally going to become a nation with an imperial leader. An all powerful president, or should we call it what it is, a king. The New York Times discusses this very fact tomorrow in Glum Democrats Can't See Halting Bush on Courts. The article itself is just the same drivel we have come to expect from Adam Nagourney so lets just jump to the chase and look at what John Aravosis has to say about the situation. To begin with I am in complete agreement with John's title, Just fire the Democrats, please. All of them. If you have read anything I have published the few days you know that's my feeling as well. He first quotes the Times:

Even though Democrats thought from the beginning that they had little hope of defeating the nomination, they were dismayed that a nominee with such clear conservative views - in particular a written record of opposition to abortion rights - appeared to be stirring little opposition.

Republicans say that Mr. Bush, in making conservative judicial choices, has been doing precisely what he said he would do in both of his presidential campaigns. Indeed, they say, his re-election, and the election of a Republican Congress, meant that the choices reflected the views of much of the American public.

John then in effect says balderdash.

Ok, let's get a few things straight:

1. Yes, Virginia, the country won't just spontaneously rise up in opposition to President Bush. You need to actually LEAD the country, you need to actually CONVINCE Americans that Bush is wrong and you are right. You can't just sit back, do nothing, and hope that the simple fact that you're right leads you to victory.

2. Only an idiot thinks Bush won the election because "much of the American public" supported anything in his platform. He won by default. People couldn't stand him, they didn't want him back as president, but the Democrats presented the voters with an even worse choice. And when it's a choice between two evils, while Mae West may pick the one she hasn't tried, the American people prefer the lesser of the two. Any Democrat who thinks Bush won, and we lost, because he had some kind of mandate is a fool.

This is just that much more evidence of why there needs to be a major blood-letting in the Democratic party, and soon. Heads need to roll. ROLL. People need to lose their jobs, en masse. After 2000, no one took responsibility. After 2004, no one took responsibility. And now it's happening again. Our wonderful party leaders are sitting back and scratching their heads wondering why the country isn't simply running into our arms while they sit back and do nothing to earn the country's respect and loyalty.

There needs to be a major revolution in the Democratic party. Heads need to roll, and soon.

If that sounds familiar it should, you read it here, here, here and here. In order to win a fight, and this may have been one of the most important fights in this country's history, you have to actually fight and do it intelligently. The blundering political hacks in charge of the Democratic party did neither. I guess they were listening to Marshall Wittmann and the DLC. If the Democrats nominate anyone from the DC Democratic establishment in 2008 they won't be getting my vote. I will no longer enable inept servitude from members of what is supposed to be the "opposition party". It goes beyond the Presidential election and includes most sitting Senators including my own Ron Wyden. Perhaps the party has to die so something vibrant can grow from it's carcass.