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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and drown.
-Woody Allen.
Ohio Tally Fit for Ukraine Fishing at the pedestal of the Ohio Statue of Liberty

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: D-Party ever-accelerating death spiral
Can you ever really pinpoint the moment when a democracy falls apart?
The staggering defeat of the Democratic Party and its ever-accelerating death spiral weren't obvious from the election results. Two factors masked the extent of the party's trouble. Without the innovation of Internet-driven small-donor fund-raising and a corresponding surge in support from the youngest voters, John Kerry would have suffered a dramatically larger defeat. And the true magnitude of the Democrats' abject failure at the polls in 2004 would have been more clearly revealed.
• Only the Grassroots Can Save The Democratic Party ;
Yuval Rubinstein Joe Trippi has written an op-ed (in the friggin' WSJ, of all places) discussing how the Kerry...; Orrin Judd: NEED ANY HELP LOADING THAT GUN? : The Grassroots Can Save Democrats: Howard Dean paved the way to future victories; Taegan Goddard: Democrats Defeat Was Worse Than You Think — Joe Trippi argues that the "staggering defeat of the Democratic Party and...;Pejman Yousefzadeh: SHORTER JOE TRIPPI — If it weren't for people like me, John Kerry would have lost by a lot more; Lorie Byrd: Trippi Discusses Future of Democrats — Before you dismiss this WSJ article by Joe Trippi as the rantings of a loser, give it a read; Charles Johnson: Dean has paved the way to future glorious victory: The Grassroots Can Save Democrats.
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