That's the way partisan politics is, Doug. People always automatically look at everything through their own set of tinted, prejudiced glasses. You do it. The Democrats do it. You each delight in the other's misfortunes and take snide potshots at their successes. It's inevitable in a partisan system, which is a form of what Lincoln referred to as "a house divided"...a setup that cannot result in a meeting of minds but must forever have people at each other's throats.

It doesn't stand up very well, and it's a stupid, lousy way to organize a society.

I don't believe in it any more than I believe in the divine right of kings (another failed system) or the divine right of the Communist Party (another failed system).

- LH