Quote of the Day

From Jason Steck in The Van Der Galien Gazette calling upon voters to hold those who play petty partisan games and use divisive rhetoric accountable and instead demand bipartisan solutions to our nation’s problems:

“Even though frustrated by the confrontational, inflammatory rhetoric of the Bush Administration or MoveOn.org, voters from both liberal and conservative wings need to make a choice—-do they care about gaining the emotional satisfactions of demonizing the other side, or do they care about pragmatic reforms?

They can no longer pretend to want both. Overheated, pejorative flame-terms like “Nazis”, “unpatriotic”, “neocons”, or “surrender monkeys” work to destroy the willingness of the other side to agree even to the minimal areas where there might exist some common ground. The choice to embrace such terms, therefore, is a choice to prioritize selfish emotional pleasure over practical policymaking.”

Amen to that.