Opportunity

The nay-saying commenters on the Editors' hopeful post about lobby reform are probably half right - even though Democrats receive only about 10 percent of K Street dollars, they're unlikely to push for serious reform, and would probably call anyone crazy who did. It's like the fabled American Dream - no one wants to mess with the system, even if it screws most people, because each thinks she might get rich someday.

What the DNC would need is a crazy man at the helm, one so nuts he'd build a ground operation in red states like Texas, a place in which it is of course totally impossible for any Democrat to win, ever. Someone under whose supervision of the Democratic party would waste resources in pointless races in Southern Ohio. Oh, and maybe someone whose fundraising strategy aims to collect millions of dollars over the internet by giving ordinary voters as much attention as the other party lavishes on oil-mongering, war-profiteering CEOs. Yeah, like that could work.

Yes, the Democratic party would have to go "crazy" and abandon its establishment ways before it could deal with the blatant corruption of the Republican Party. And what are the chances of that happening?