Awhile ago, when I used to blog, I referred to some statements of Senator Barbara Boxer, in my brilliantly-named Kos She Said So, That’s Why. Specifically, I quoted Boxer’s vilification of the Republican Party wherein she states “they want 100 percent.”

I held that quote up to ridicule not because I think it’s untrue, but because Barbara Boxer: a) obviously considers the Democratic Party to be cut of superior cloth; and b) thinks that a party shouldn’t want 100 percent. It may be that notions such as the latter are frequently rattled off in the laundry list of principles held by the American left — a list that would be remiss to omit fairness, bipartisanship, inclusion, and diversity — but it’s in fact quite contrary to the spirit in which I (and, I believe, everyone else) elect officials to represent me in the government.

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