"You know, the desire of revenge is great, of course. But the truth is, public policy doesn't run on revenge very well. And when you see the trouble this country has gotten into, in terms of foreign policy — where Bush basically ran a foreign policy based on petulance because he was mad at, for example, Mexico for abstaining on the Security Council when the Iraq War came up — if you have to actually run the country, it is best not to do it based on feelings of anger toward your enemies."
—Governor Howard Dean, on Joe Lieberman
UPDATE: We cats have poked our noses into a few corners of the liberal blogosphere tonight and just want to say something: While we are completely and totally lefties, we also don't believe in shooting ourselves in the foot — er, paw.
Therefore, we trust that that Democratic caucus meeting today was a lot like the famous scene from "Mister Roberts," in which Henry Fonda and James Cagney come to a torturous, secret negotiation for shore leave. The crew thought Mister Roberts had sold out to their tyrannical captain. How wrong they were.
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