(I’ll come back and clean this up later, but I have to go cook now)

Although I don’t live in the Beltway anymore, I still correspond with friends and progressives there regularly. It’s frustrating, because I never quite adopted that Beltway mindset; too much about it reminded me of the Queer Clubbing circuit to make me comfortable (that is, clubbing drama is fine in a club, but not in national politics). But in the spirit of “never give in, never surrender,” let me see if I can recap the major points in the argument/perspective that I hold as a progressive.

1. The purpose of electing Democrats and keeping them in the majority is not so that elected Democrats can stay in their jobs forever.  Read more 

Jim Webb has stood for some good stuff since becoming a Senator. How in the HELL could he imagine that it’s ok to carry loaded pistols, and who knows what all else, in DC?  Read more