You wanna piece 'o me...? Huh...? HUH...? Do ya...?

echoing skadi's post from tuesday, "Never Give Up! Never Surrender!," robert parry challenges us to fight...

Forget the donkey. National Democrats might want to adopt some of the fighting spirit demonstrated by a half-ton bull that disrupted a Mexico City bullfight by jumping into the stands to scatter customers sitting in the highest-priced front-row seats.



The bull – named “Pajarito” for “little bird” – startled the well-dressed spectators and injured one before he was stabbed to death by a bullfight participant wielding a sword. [BBC News, Jan. 30, 2006]

So, Pajarito didn’t escape his fate, but he did act with more enlightened self-interest than many national Democrats have shown. Not only did Pajarito fight – rather than simply accept the taunting and a stylized death – but he bypassed the matador, who is really just a glorified butcher in a fancy costume, to go after the wealthy paying customers who make the butchery profitable.

The way Congress now works has some parallels to the bullfight, except the Democrats – when confronting George W. Bush – often act like a passive bull that thinks survival depends on cooperating with the matador. There’s scarcely a Pajarito to be found.

i saw the video clip of the bull leaping into the stands... it was a truly horrifying spectacle...

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