I would argue that there's ample competition for the "most incredible paragraph" title.

Examples:

“This is not a collegial body anymore,” he said. “It is more like gang behavior. Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That’s what Congress has come to.”

....“Money changes hands here way too much,” he said. “Members buy their way onto committees. When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are — how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It’s worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.”

what you claim to like about Obama

What do I claim to like about Obama? Huh? Either give me a reference or don't make presumptions.

Why must you make up phantom political teams out of a few people agreeing that an article is interesting? And presume you know they are your enemies? This is one of the things I really hate about the blogosphere, i.e., TMac is known to write blogs about her activism in the Democratic party. I am not known to do any such thing. But because we both happen to find a single article of interest, we must both be members of a gang that you have to razz or provoke using classic troll tactics.

I haven't talked much about my personal political preferences on the net for eons. But I'll do so this time because I used to very much like reading your comments but your habit of pigeonholing me and others is really starting to grate.

I bet I've been a registered Independent longer than you have. Since 1984 specifically, after I had moved to NYC and was finally appalled enough by the results of a particularly nasty Democratic political machine, up close and personal to leave the party system for good. I've never voted for a Republican for national office. But I have for other offices, and a lot of NYC residents can say the same thing, hence the non-Democrat mayors for quite some time now.

And another thing, since I've had a lot of interest in reading and learning about other Independents over the decades since I've been one, I've never bought your regular arguments trying to convince people that most Independents are leftist on a lot of issues like yourself.  Project your own views on other Independents all you want, but I don't believe that's the case. I think a lot more of them might like a representative along the lines of  Jim Cooper here, not because of his blue dog ideology, but because of the kinds of things he says in this article.

As to your hah-hah suggestion about donations. Just so happens I don't believe in donating to any political candidates. And said so here. I don't like our campaign finance system and I don't think little people donating to individual politicians to counter big people donating to individual politicians is the answer to changing it, but perpetuates and ingrains it. We already pay the salaries of the elected, they are our servants, it makes no sense for us to pay them while they are applying for a job with us. I very much disliked how the Obama campaign chose to go private, and especially the way so many people who couldn't afford it were donating money to his campaign as if they were buying hope in a bottle, it really gave me nausea.

What is the deal with trying to pigeonhole people so you can argue with the strawman group you make? Especially ones that don't write blogs proclaiming their opinions? Why not just stick to writing what you think? I'm not particularly interested in defending groups I don't feel I belong to.  When I see someone trying to start up the team vs. team play, that's when I often ignore and even leave a thread.