Go, Molly, go!

Molly Ivins on the D.C. Dems:

"I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton."

"I can’t see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can’t even see straight."

"As usual, the Democrats have forty good issues on their side and want to run on thirty-nine of them. Here are three they should stick to:

1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it’s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.

2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.

3) Single-payer health insurance."

Ivins just summed up Jonathan Tasini's platform in a nutshell. Tasini is challenging Clinton in the Democratic Senate primary. His positions on the issues--like war (anti), money-corrupted politics (anti), jobs (pro), and universal health care (pro), to list just a few--are much closer to those of ordinary New Yorkers (and other Americans) than Clinton's are.

On the other hand, Clinton has name recognition and celebrity status, she has vast amounts of campaign cash and corporate backing (aka "poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery") and, allegedly, "she has the left in her back pocket."

In other words, Clinton is a shoo-in, for all the wrong reasons.

So here's hoping she's unseated by Tasini. New Yorkers would get a senator far more dedicated to serving their interests, and Clinton's presidential aspirations would likely get snuffed as well.

So I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.