Reply #20: on our newly won Democrats

[snake in the grass]

The interesting thing for me about this story is that it tends to support a suspicion I've had for several years; this being that it will most likely be a Republican who ends up saving the day. For all of their dangerous backwardness and, often times, artificial stubbornness, when one of their own makes their mind up about an issue, they are consequent. Neither their peers nor members of the opposition can intimidate them and these people follow through. Occasionally, albeit rarely, some of them even get it right.

I so sincerely regret that, for the most part, our own party leaders lack the fortitude to muster up enough courage to actually do something and not just talk about it (and this in spite of an overwhelming support by a sane majority).

It is often said that converts tend to be zealots. Let us hope that this new Democrat and those like him can be an example to other party members who are in a position to actually change something. It really is time for many in the Democratic leadership to speed up the funding to stem cell research so that they can finally get that so needed, colour-coordinated, and genetically designed spinal cord. Hell we could even throw in a toaster that tells the weather!

Immediately thereafter they could start putting their money where their mouths are.