Aubade
Why Go On?
Thursday, 16 June 2011

¶ Our conviction that the Democratic Party is no more than the useless rump of a once-farseeing political organization has been unpleasantly strengthened by its now-successful pursuit of Anthony Weiner’s resignation from Congress. This ought to have been a “teaching opportunity” for Party leaders, given the utterly tendentious and/or hypocritical nature of the revelations in the case; but, no. There are no teachers among the Democrats (except maybe Barney Frank). That anyone would pay attention to discredited political hack Nancy Pelosi makes the whole business doubly depressing.