What I Want For Christmas

[acmejack]

Santa, don't bring me any stuff. The one and only thing I want is this: A real Democratic party, alive and kicking!

Dear Santa: There are so many toys I'd love to find under my tree this year! All kinds of new kitchen gizmos have caught my eye, and a bunch of CDs have caught my ear. Oh, I love gardening stuff, too. Plus, I hear there's a little robot that goes to the fridge and gets a beer for you -- could I have one of those? Pleeeeeze. There are so many things, and I know I can't be greedy and ask for them all, so I've been making a list of my very top favorites.

But last night as I was looking over my list ... I suddenly tore it up! Ripped the whole thing to bits and trashed it. I still like toys, mind you, but well, we live in a weird time, don't we Santa?

Even if I got everything on my list, by Christmas afternoon I'd be asking myself: Is that all there is? I don't mean I'd want more stuff. Stuff is the problem! Stuff is an insidious diversion, and it's so ... so ... so unsatisfying.

I need -- we need, our country needs something much bigger to strive for than mere possessions. There's a widespread hunger for a sense of national commitment and purpose. We need a connection to a common effort that'll enlist us to stop Washington's and Wall Street's abandonment of our egalitarian values, that'll reverse the growing sense most of us have that our America is headed in the wrong direction, that'll rekindle our democratic idealism.

http://www.alternet.org/story/29788/

[chemenger]

1. This is #1 on my Christmas wish list too!

A Democratic Party that will rip the Repukes a new asshole in 2006!!!

[BOSSHOG]

2. Whoa! A robot that gets a beer for you?

Maybe that would be a good New Year's Present? How bout delay in a jail cell, republicans actually and honestly pursuing impeachment. More secret criminal activity of bush that the NYT has been holding being published in January. Abramoff squeals, gop cloakroom shrinks. Action in limbaugh's case. Sex scandal involving santorum and (fill in the blank.) An endless list indeed. And we have the radical conservatives to thank.

[The-Cynic]

3. Hey, you forgot a guilty plea from Tom Delay

Although religious as he is, nothing stops a con from lying so that wish for my christmas gift would be utterly impossible, Tom's a christian zelot he's not a jail bird until that attitude leaves him he'll always plea innocent.