Our correspondent from parts unknown…

...AKA Fugitive, offers a comment that merits front page attention...

First, the Republicans who control Washington aren't tough and strong, they're lying sacks of gutter trash. So saying that Dems are weak in the current context really means Dems aren't criminals abusing the government and lying to voters.

Second, there were twenty-five Dems (I think) who stood tall during the cloture vote against Alito, and forty-some who stood against Bush during the actual vote. Is that powerlessness when that's pretty much the entire Senate caucus? And what about Pelosi holding the entire team together in the House the other day? Was that weakness?

Third, Kerry lost by 50,000 votes to an incumbent president during war time. Throw out the gay marriage fiasco and he probably takes Ohio. And if you don't believe me, read this.

Fourth, in about a year the entire country has migrated to an essentially Democratic view of :

-- Iraq
-- The Budget
-- Energy policy

Call them leading indicators. Call them lagging indicators. Bush's poll numbers stink and the country doesn't trust the Congress - which the country clearly sees as Republican-controlled.

Five, the press is so pathetic that anything they say is meaningless. Yeah, it hurts when they repeat lies, but they counted Kerry out early, counted him out often, and he not only won the nominated, he gave Bush the fight of his life when Bush had a war to lean on, 9/11 to lean on, and the bully pulpit to preach from.

So put me down as not being worried about the Democratic Party. In fact, I haven't felt as good about the party as I do right now in a long time.

I'm having another 'me, too' moment.