From Democratic Underground
By Bernard Weiner

“Shallow Throat” joined me at a mostly-deserted park in Virginia, red-faced and shaking with anger. I didn’t even have to ask a question before the rage exploded out:

“I can’t believe your Democrat friends are blowing it once again! The Bushies are imploding in one scandal after another, it’s dictator-time, the GOP in Congress is tarred by the Abramoff corruption brush, more attacks on Mideast countries are coming soon, Bush ordered spying on Americans with no court permission, impeachment momentum is in the air – and the Dems have let the President off the hook once again! How many times are you going to push that boulder up the steep hill to the top and then let it roll back down again? Do you liberals really have a death-wish?”

Normally, I have to contact the secretive GOP mole high up in the Bush Administration, but this time Shallow Throat came looking for me. To vent, to explode, to dish.

“Whoa there,” I said, as we walked quickly down a tree-lined path. “Slow down and tell me what’s wrong. And, by the way, I’m not a Democratic consultant, I just play one on the Internet. I presume you’re talking about Alito escaping the Judiciary Committee noose in his hearing?”

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