Let me get back into the groove with a little Becky O’Malley from the Berkeley Daily Planet:

Another sobering thought is that the sensible majority might get the country back in 2006 or 2008, but it would be so broke by that time that it couldn‘t be fixed. This administration has been very diligent about transferring the taxes paid by middle class Americans into the pockets of the super-rich. The worst case would be that a dream ticket (think Clinton-Obama) would be elected only to preside over the last rites of a bankrupt nation.

The Bill Clinton administration managed to reverse the deficit inherited from previous Republican tomfoolery, but can it be done a second time? The country might have reached the economic nadir first achieved by American cities in the late seventies and early eighties. When mayor’s offices in cities like Detroit were finally turned over to women and African-Americans, it was a sign that the moneyed elite had finished plundering them, and they never really came back after that.

Here is yet another example of why I find the Democrat alliance with women and minorities so puzzling. Could Becky be more condescending? She’s basically saying that women and blacks only became leaders because the “moneyed elite” (read: rich white men) finally allowed them to after they were done “plundering.” Apparently the electoral fortunes of minorities don’t depend on their own merits.

Becky sez: All you colored boys and girls need to wait until the grownups are done.