So, the Sour Cynics Club is now in session. I wonder who the president of the club is this time--sounds like a tough race between Rig and Guest-Guest (like John-John?)

So nothing has ever been accomplished by politics? Interesting. Nothing--like Social Security, woman's suffrage, labor laws, etc. No doubt about it--all the people who voted for such things would have been better off staying at home. After all, that's The Mudcat Way---or so it seems, with few exceptions--like Joe, Big Mick, and a few others.

An arch, knowing, self -pity is so much more rewarding than actually trying to change anything through politics.

And for those who want universal healthcare on a silver platter: Hillary wants to "require" everybody to buy it. Good luck. How will this be enforced? Obama at least realizes there will be people who refuse it---just as there are in Massachusetts, which supposedly has it.

Much as Mudcatters may not want to admit it, politics is in fact the art of the possible. Universal healthcare, like many of the other advances will be a process--nobody will wave a magic wand for it.

But after all, it's just The $ystem or Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Obviously there's no point to voting.

It's just too bad those on the Right don't share this conviction of the Left.

And you can bet Hillary will unify the squabbling Republicans like nothing else could. While Obama will get far more independents--and Republicans--in addition to Democrats.

But politics is so dirty--we can't soil our hands.