all this talk of making ‘better Democrats’ is like talking about making better frogs, frogs with feathers, and spines, and wings coming off the spines! so that they could fly, and sing! and build their nests out of twigs, and mate for life, to members of their own sex if they wanted to – why what wonderful frogs those would be!

these are birds, actually, and if you want to support birds you’ve got to stop trying to turn frogs into birds.

and while it is true that a couple frogs like Feingold or Dodd have patches of feathers on their hides, and sing a few chirps sometimes, there are no birds of this sort of feather in Washington DC. Those few (D)’s of a birdy nature would be free to strategically vote with birds, if there were any birds in washington, but there are not, because the frogs are really much more comfortable with their own kind, even though in even numbered years their croaking starts to include poll tested rhetoric about ‘change.’

but their actions are always just as froggy as they’ve ever been, and it is obvious to non-frogs that they have more in common with their warty cousins the toads than they do with even a flightless bird like the kiwi.

Now what does this mean? Well if supply and demand factors were driving the market, these big declines today should have sent prices through the roof today but in fact the reverse happened. Why? Because the markets are being driven by speculative plays not supply and demand.