Unfit to Govern

The New York Times informs us today that the Democrats are eager to exploit anger over high gas prices.

Is anyone in America surprised by this? After all, they're also eager to exploit public anger over the war in Iraq (even as they provide no plan of their own).

Certainly, neither political party is above stoking public anger for its own ends. But what distinguishes a party that is worthy of governing from one that is not is whether (1) it has a plan of its own and (2) whether the public policy likely to result from the widespread public anger is advantageous to America. Otherwise, the anger being stoked has nothing to do with patriotism and problem solving, but everything to do with simply gaining power at any cost.

Here, the Democrats fail on both counts. And that, in my book, demonstrates once again that, however flawed the Republicans, voting Democratic would be a stupid and futile alternative.