Giving Billmon a Run

I knew Digby wouldn't be able to resist my brave challenge to step up to the plate after Billmon's magisterial post on Leviathan put him in the lead for "the blogger you want to take with you to a deserted island." (I'll rethink that title, I promise.) This morning he completely guts the idiot Dems and their plans, via the NY Times, to lie back and take it one more time from the Repubs. You, of course, need to read the entire masterpiece, but here's the sample:

In fact, [the Dems are implying] the best thing to do would be to keep losing until everything is perfect so they don't have to do anything unpleasant and the loud and angry left will have nothing to scream about.

If anyone's wondering what the Democrats' master plan has been for the last few years, I think we've found it.

Memo to the party mandarins dispensing all this wise advice: If you have a chance to win, you win. Not because you want to do a victory lap but because you care about the country and you will do anything you can to stop the hell these crazy bastards have unleashed and start down a new path. Do you want them to continue to have free reign over the next two years while they pump up this phony threat with Iran? Do you want them to be in charge of another natural disaster like Katrina? More money thrown into the black maw of GOP contributors? What are you thinking?

This is why the establishment is becoming irrelevant. It isn't a game to us hicks out here in America. This is our lives these people are talking about.