Dems Have No Spine

In today's NYT . . .

From Maureen Dowd:

Are the Republicans so obsessed with maintaining control over all branches of government, and are the Democrats so emasculated about not having any power, that they are willing to turn the nation into a wholly owned subsidiary of the church?

From Frank Rich:

The Harvard Law School constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe pointed out this week that even Joe McCarthy did not go so far as this Congress and president did in conspiring to "try to undo the processes of a state court." But faced with McCarthyism in God's name, most Democratic leaders went into hiding and stayed silent. Prayers are no more likely to revive their spines than poor Terri Schiavo's brain.

Absolutely goddamned right.  We don't have an opposition party if we can't muster any vocal or visible oppostion to a disgusting, cynical policy.  The public gets it, according to the polls, so why don't Dems?

Because we're so fucking obsessed with trying to find a way to be moderately fundamentalist.

This past week made me ashamed of my party, and I'm wondering where the hell to go.