Mid-term elections

Here's why we need to win the mid-terms:

The argument for the Democrats is not that they are brilliantly organized, politically courageous, or profoundly principled. They are not. The argument for the Democrats is that on national security, on the issues that define The American Crisis, they are fundamentally professional, fundamentally decent, and fundamentally in tune with the successful security strategies that have served America well since the Second World War and have united the free world for sixty years.

The argument for the Democrats is that America is a Republic that functions best with two political parties and three branches of goverment sharing power. The Nation inevitably endures grave crisis, as we have learned through much unnecessary danger and blood, when the goodwill of the Republic, and the checks and balances of democracy, are destroyed by the single minded partisans and factions that the Federalist Papers warned all future generations so sternly against.

The problem, of course, is two-fold: Republican dirty tricks and Diebold voting machines. I can't say that I'm optimistic but I do think the Republicans are scared and that's a hopeful sign.

(The above passage is from "The American Crisis: If Thomas Paine Were With Us, Part 3" by Brent Budowsky.)