I am a cold-hearted, unsympathetic partisan

By GottaLaff

Via TPM, from Charlie Cook:

Late Monday afternoon I was standing in front of 200 or so congressional staff members when someone in the front row handed me a Blackberry with the news bulletin announcing Sen. Ted Stevens' seven-count felony conviction. As I read the news flash to the gasping Hill aides one thing jumped into mind: "Foley Friday," Sept. 29, 2006, when news broke of then-GOP Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate behavior toward a House page. At that point in 2006, Republicans had already been buffeted for a year or more by a then-worsening situation in Iraq and a wide array of scandals. Just as it seemed things could not possibly get worse, they did. Only the most partisan of Democrats or cold-hearted of people would fail to have some compassion or sympathy towards a party for which virtually everything has gone wrong. Someone recently likened it to watching a wounded dog kicked.

I call it karma (despite the fact that I dislike that word), so I guess that makes me cold-hearted (although friends, family, and acquaintances would disagree). As for compassion and sympathy, I have very little for a party who supported an unprovoked, fraudulent invasion of a sovereign country, a tanking economy, my $20,000-a-year health care, annihilating the legal system, stacking the courts, endless corruption, dismantling our democracy, making a mockery of habeas corpus, demolishing our global standing, implementing torture, invading our privacy... ad nauseam.

Nor do I feel much for them after the smear tactics they've used, or at the very least failed to condemn, in the presidential campaign.

No, I don't have a lot of compassion or sympathy for most of these people at the moment. Check back with me on November 5th.

And I'd never, ever kick a wounded dog.