Gary Hart has an 
editorial in the New York Times that cuts to the heart of the role of religion in politics. I think George Bush's argument must be that he's trying to protect the largest number of Americans possible from the dangers of becoming overly wealthy and, thereby, increasing their chances of going to heaven. Do you figure that's why people elected him?
Phil sent me this open letter to the Red-State victors. It is more sneering and condescending than I would be, but I agree in large measure with the content.
We Blue Democrats voted for John Kerry because we believed he would minister to your needs better than Bush. A President Kerry would have shared some of our wealth with you, assured your health care, raised the minimum wage, and checked the rapacious greed of the multinationals that hold you in thrall.
President Kerry would have helped us to help you, which is all that we ask. It pains us to see you in wage slavery. It pains us to see you so ignorant and uneducated, and so eager to place yourselves in bondage. Yes, we live better; but we wish you to live better too, even if it means sacrifice on our part.
It's true.
StevenBrewer