Morons.
Democrats are ponying up for the 2004 GOP convention—out of their pride in New York City.
They’re paying out of their own pockets to support a party that’s capitalized in an incredibly ugly fashion on the greatest tragedy ever to strike the city, or the country, milking it for political capital in the greatest roll-back of civil liberties this country has ever seen. They’re paying out of their own pockets to support a party that intends to use the memorial of 3000 New Yorkers as a backdrop for the 2004 presidential campaign. They’re paying out of their own pockets to support a party that’s starving New York City at every turn of basic funding—to say nothing of the extra monies needed to keep it, and all the rest of us, safe.
If they had any pride in New York City at all, they’d put their money back in their pockets and tell the GOP to go fuck themselves.
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I suppose it would be too much to ask that the media speak to a few actual New Yorkers while they're here?
Hell, I'd be willing to bet that the survivors of the WTC victims won't be invited to the cornerstone dedication.
Those people aren't democrats; they are DLC Eisenhower Republicans.
Yeah, these are the people about whom Ellen Goodman was nattering about a couple of years back as some kind of "Great White Monied Hope" against Bush in *Newsweek*. Stupid then. Stupid now, obviously. *Newsweek* is largely written for people who'd like to read *Maxim* in public but are too embarrassed. :p
Though she and I don't agree about everything, I always did like Ivins' term: "Tory Democrats."