In answer to DallasDoc's excellent essay, I'm reposting something I put up at The Other Place many moons ago.
This should not be taken as any kind of backhanded insult to DD's diary, which I largely agree with, though I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the Democrats and their choices anymore. I repost it now because I think it's important to understand that they don't care whether they win, and they haven't cared for a long time.

I am slowly migrating the content which I created over at the Great Orange Satan and some other websites here to C99.

This article is interesting now because we are coming close to the last budget cycle of the Obama presidency, his last chance to arrange a "Grand Bargain" to ingratiate himself to the 1 percenters that will pay for his Presidential library and line his pockets in his Post-Presidential earning years.