More and Better Democrats

One of the challenges of writing a blog in general is having enough things to say on a daily basis to keep people interested. One of the challenges of writing a blog about progressive Leadership is that there is such an absolute vacuum in Washington of it, that one struggles to find anything inspirational at all. So sometimes you have to leave Washington and look elsewhere, for what Atrios calls "More and Better Democrats."

I have found one of those Democrats, and his name is Jared Polis. He's apparently insane enough to run for congress as a progressive in the conservative state of Colorado (though in the apparent hippy mecca of Boulder.) While most candidates espouse vague rhetoric of change and hope and blah blah blah, he's actually putting his money where his mouth is. He's going to fucking Iraq to see how it looks on the ground. My guess is he'll be the only candidate in the country to do so.

Hopefully, he'll get access to more than just the green zone and see what's really going on over there. He's a far braver man than I, regardless. Good luck, sir.