So, I've noted here before about being a reformed whore - I don't want to belabor it, and it's getting to the point where it feels that way - still, some introduction is called for.

As others have noted on this site and elsewhere, David Broder of the WaPo has increasingly appeared to be a 'friend of the neo-cons.'  I'm not really sure the economic interests of the Republican party are really ruled by the neo-cons - a bunch more interested in foreign policy.  However, of late, even as the evidence of Bush's incompetence at governing, on a whole host of policies, Broder, a formerly 'moderate' voice, has continued to be increasingly critical of Democrats.  Today's column no less so.  More below the fold...

I have, over the past five years, found myself leaping from one party to it's polar opposite - at the same time feeling as if my basic values and beliefs haven't moved one iota.  It seems to me that if I can do it, then others can too...we just need to start talking more about the issues that drove that change...so, I give you, without further adieu, Anne Applebaum's piece on welfare for the rich - something I've commented on here and elsewhere - this goes far beyond corporate welfare, something Democrats need to pound home more and expand on.  The GOP is engaged in naked class warfare, and have been for years - we need to do the same.  Much, much more below the fold...