Damn

Dodd is out, Durbin is out, Dorgan is out. Reid is almost certainly a shoe-in for Minority Leader. Today in the Times he said he was ready and eager to work closely with George Bush. There's some talk that HRC might challenge for the job, but even progressives with fire in the belly will probably support Reid because HRC is too polarizing. The Dems seem scared now to take any kind of stand.

In other words? We're fucked. At least until '06. I can't imagine we'll see Snowe, Collins, Chafee and other northeast liberal senators changing parties like Jeffords did before (what a principled attempt to stop Bush, by the way--but the Wellstone catastrophe erased the gesture).

Tom Friedman added to the list of pundits discussing "two Americas" in his editorial today. Two years ago Tom was rimming Bush's asshole over the Iraq war and how noble it was, and now he starts to fear the intolerance we've unleashed? Fuck you, Tom Friedman. If you'd done some journalism instead of propagandizing before Iraq, things might have gone differently.