Huffington Post Column Supports Politics Over Ethics

It’s true. The author, Mike Lux, says that Democrats should act like loyal Democrats for party’s sake, their own political sakes and for the sake of health reform passage.

Now, to be fair, Lux does a good job of analyzing voting patterns (at least, from a certain perspective), and from the perspective of?a loyal Democrat there is little to argue with what he says. However, given that playing politics is what Americans dislike- isn’t that a big reason that why we voted President Obama in last year?- it seems rather shortsighted. Politics are supposed to be about service to the country, not service to the party, and even the idea that what is good for Democrats is good for America ignores that playing party politics will hurt the Democratic Party as much or more than divisions will.