Republicans: The Deadbeat Daddy Party

Avedon Carol says something I've been trying to say for years:

The Sideshow April 2006 Archive: "Mommy Party" at Booman Tribune brings me back to my earlier thoughts of why I hate all that "framing" talk.... I believe in the original go-round, we were told that Democrats are the Mother and Republicans are the Father. As I later observed, this only works if the father you have in mind is a deadbeat dad.

And she has more:

The BooMan, happily for us, was joining Thomas Frank in stomping on Joe Klein.... Frank gets right to the heart of it, here:

The second fixed idea in Mr. Klein's mental universe is a persistent disdain for the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. This, too, is common sense for certain self-designated spokesmen of the 60's generation (remember the annoying "rebel capitalist" meme of the late 90's, in which the libertarian New Economy was supposed to be the final flowering of the counterculture?).... Mr. Klein... laughs off "state-run health care" as a "vegetarian notion" and, as he has done in his other books, heaps contempt on traditional liberalism-on the economic issues like education, wages and Social Security that once linked the Democratic Party to its working-class base. Economic liberalism, Mr. Klein yawns, is boring stuff--"jobs, health-care, and blah-blah-blah," is how he summarizes it at one point...