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Avedon Carol, posting at Eschaton, makes a really good point about corruption and the Democrats:

Lambert wants to ask the Democratic candidates, "What is the Democrats' plan to restore Constitutional Government?"

Hm. Maybe we should ask our reps, too.

She later added an update justifying her post; it seems that the commenters didn't like that idea:

Update: Look, I'm not saying we should bash the Dems. I'm saying it's a real issue and no one else is going to ask them, so we have to.

It's a question about one of the important issues of the day, and they should be able to answer it.

This left me a bit puzzled - why would people be afraid of asking Democrats that question? It's a freakin' gimme, since all you have to do is provide a semi-coherent answer promoting open government, and it implies that the current administration is behaving in a very unconstitutional fashion. So why the reticence to ask?

I think it's because people are afraid the Democrats won't actually behave consitutionally, or, at the least, won't be able to even provide a good answer to that question.

Which is pretty pathetic, if you ask me - people don't like the Republicans for being corrupt, but they are willing to overlook the same in the Democrats because they won't be as bad about it?

Seems like a limitation of an entrenched two-party system in which both parties are bound by the same structural limitations.