With one of liberty’s best friends, gridlock, tying up the Democratic party’s nomination process, one news headline reads: “Reid, Pelosi, Dean may intervene in nomination.” The politicos may entertain Boobus with their electioneering shows of smoke, mirrors, flashing lights, and dancing waters but, when the final decision is to be made, it will once again be made behind closed doors by the real “deciders.” The “boys in the smoke-filled room” have been renamed “super-delegates,” but the same top-down game remains in place. I can imagine Reid, Pelosi, and Dean emerging from the meeting to inform Boobus – in words parphrasing Ben Franklin’s – “we have given you a candidate, if you can support it.”

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