Fight Corruption, Please

Read Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post. Then try to tell yourself, honestly, that the Democratic Party is doing anything of substance to fix the problems that allow the Republicans to exploit the undemocratic money-for-influence system in Washington. It is time for Democrats to address their own complicity, but also to use the relative cleanliness that comes form being out of power to seize this issue's moral high ground for good. (Along with the money corruption, a lot of attention is due to Delay's vote-rigging in Texas, as reported by Dan Eggen of the Washington Post. However, of course, Democrats aren't exactly succeeding at doing much gerrymandering or seizing control of Congress these days, so they have less complicity to admit here.)

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It's easy to use it as a line to win one election, but Democrats need to get that we will win more elections in the long run by being the populist anti-corruption party, rather than simply settling for second place in the money race year after year, and merely talking about the Republicans' corruption. Time for some maverick reform. This is a moderate issue because it is the great unacknowledged agreement amongst all voters--corruption is bad. Campaign finance is dirty, all around. Full stop. Propose laws. Propose them again and again. Try. Please try.