Had Enough Of Having Enough

Bill Richardson sends an email around saying he's "had enough" of Congress in the wake of their failure to override Bush's SCHIP veto. It's about the Republican leadership, but gets in some gratuitous slaps at the Democrats too by saying "no one is standing up to them," citing negative poll numbers, etc. It's hard to know just who he's angry at.

I don't know, every single Democrat save two Bush Dogs voted to override. And veto overrides themselves are exceedingly rare. This is bigger than Richardson is willing to admit. This is about an angry, eliminationist conservative movement that is seeing their power slip away inch by inch and is lashing out in increasingly nasty and heartless ways. They can't reconcile the fact that they've created a myth that Daddy Government can protect you completely in foreign affairs, but must not be trusted whatsoever in domestic ones. So they're just being bastards. And they have a base that won't let them deviate from anything but the most extreme course of action.

I don't know what Richardson thinks he can do about this, other than getting 290 and 67 Democrats in the House and Senate. And even then I don't expect much from this generation of Grover Cleveland clones. And I don't see Mr. "Pro-Growth Democrat" Richardson as all that different.

There aren't many Democrats out there who understand just what they're up against with the cornered animal that is the conservative movement. Real change is simply unlikely until that movement is fully repudiated.