politics: Hurrah for Ken Mehlman!

Ken Mehlman's my hero. No, really. He provides me regularly with fodder for rants, dissatisfaction and general blood pressure elevation.

True to form came his e-mail this weekend containing the latest RNC Newspeak. Well, OK, it's not so new (Republicans have been parroting this crap for months). But still.

"Yesterday's era of Democrats like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy brought real ideas and solutions to the table in an attempt to make a better life for the American people," he says.

"Unfortunately, today's Democrat Party is not the one your parents knew. Instead, today's Democrats are singularly focused on obstruction and over-the-top rhetoric, adding nothing to raise the level of discourse and address the concerns of Americans."

All-righty. Democrats have plenty of ideas. Just because you don't like them, or because the SCLM doesn't cover them, or you don't let them come up for votes, doesn't mean they're not there.

Regardless, if you're on a train that's hell-bent on running off the edge of collapsed bridge up ahead over the canyon, you don't sit there and yell at the guy trying to pull on the emergency brake because he's trying to stop the train instead of coming up with another idea about where to drive it.

Idiots.