Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right

The only thing sadder than how quickly a Republican will roll over and play dead if you toss him a tax break for the super-rich is how easily a Democrat will turn into a snarling ball of stupid if you hurt his fragile fee-fees.  

We may live in an enlightened age of high technology and fast information, but lately it seems all our intellect was left back in the 18th century:

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." --Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789