Sometimes something floats right past me that I want to grab, and in assuming that I will easily be able to access it as it floats past me, I am not able to with great immediacy locate the item. Such is the case with a recent Kevin Phillips quotation — recent as in, within the last week.<\/p>\n
When I saw him at Powell’s, doing a tour for his book American Theocracy<\/em>, he at one point said, “I assume, based on all my touring that 90 percent of you are Democrats or Democrat-leaning.” I reference that simply to state that he was definitely in front of a largely Democratic crowd (and I almost want to say “yearlykos”, but that would be insane) when he said, receiving no audible response from the audience:<\/p>\n “What I worry is that the next president will be a Democrat, and he — or she — will look at the machinery of power that the current Bush Administration has built up and say, ‘Hey! That looks good!'”<\/p>\n I see and hear much carping that the “spineless” Democrats “Cowered” before the might of an unpopular president this past weekend in “caving” and approving an extension on Bush’s post-warrant wire-tapping powers. That would be the hopeful way of looking at the situation. The darker way goes to… well… you know where that one leads.
\n90 more days, and will anyone notice what is going on in 90 days?<\/p>\n