"baby bush and company may be one of the most outstanding perpetrators of the dumbing down of american politics in recent years, but both sides are guilty of aiming far too low and they always have been."

Except Bush was elected. The democrats, as much as you love to hate them, have very little mention in my original post for the obvious reason they had nothing to do with it. Try thinking outside the box instead of conforming to the "two sides war" delusion.