However, it is simply impossible to rationally sympathize with the many indignant progressives who are decrying the decision of the DC Court of Appeals when the court has done nothing more than uphold the very tactic that Harry Reid used so effectively to stymie the Bush folks.
If the indignant depictions of the class system in so many Titanic dramas coexist uneasily with their adoring depictions of upper-crust privilege, that, too, is part of the appeal: it allows us to demonstrate our liberalism even as we indulge our consumerism.