This is Simon Pericles the 10th, of the BBC, reporting to you here live from sunny Moulitsas Downs, where we're about to witness the Seventh Biannual Running of the Trolls. This ancient and beautiful Democratic Internets tradition has its roots in the flagellation of the Democrats after their stunning congressional losses in 1994. You'll remember that the Democratic party was then beset by concern trolling Beltway pundits and "strategists" advising the Democrats to be more like Republicans, try a "third way," piddle on everyone else, and just basically offering advice best described as "clown shoes."
Thus the tradition was established, and win or lose, the Democratic Party has proudly continued the Biannual Democratic Running of the Trolls to offer self-aggrandizement and bloody awful self-destructive ideas after each election.
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