Susie of Suburban Guerrilla reminds everyone of a time when members of Congress had spines.

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total; and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Barbara Charline Jordan

If you are too young, or have never heard Barbara Jordan speak, go to the link and listen, because they have the recording as well as the transcripts. She was a Congresswoman from Houston, Texas, and one of the greatest American speakers ever.

I can’t believe that I left out Scaramouche spilling a glass of wine into his keyboard and Michael at Musing’s musings returning to find the blue screen of death on his office machine.

The Associated Press reports: Democratic Hopefuls Snub Party Moderates

Not a single one of the eight presidential candidates plans to attend the Democratic Leadership Council’s summer meeting, a snub that says less about the centrist DLC than it does about a nomination process that rewards candidates who pander to their parties’ hardened cores while ignoring everybody else.

There is no magical center of independents. It has been shown by numerous polls to have vanished. The DLC wants to give away core values in exchange for nothing. Giving away a principled stand that might gain 1% on the Right, makes no sense when it costs you 2% on the Left.

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Okay, that’s not very nice, but seriously, over the years I have seen so many great ideas die because people went one step too far and had their system crash and burn.  “Good enough” is just that, and that’s the sweet spot.  That one extra feature that very few people care about could be the final straw.