As an ex-drinker and Dem, this came to mind painfully reading the Dem press conference and Stephen’s painful attempt to ..err..digest it:
12 steps out of Democratic political and the need for drunk-blogging:
1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction to statism, political pandering, and failed socialist ideas–that our country and Party had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore our country and our party to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our country over to the care of God as we understood Him (except for Obama’s racist god.)
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our need for government programs, meddling, and intrusion.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrong-minded state-as-messiah philosophy, and political pandering to the public’s worst defects, and treason to our troops.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character from our rhetoric, propaganda and platform.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings as an American political Party.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, beginning with the African Americans, and then our military, became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory by reading and honestly answering non/partisan blog writers, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Instead of poll-dependence, we sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for our nation and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other statists, leftists, and other addicts to the culture of the 60′s, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
