What's left of left?

N.Y. Senator Chuck Schumer – one of my Senators – has been shooting off his mouth again.

So what else is new?

He said of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, “Judge Alito’s record is out of the mainstream on issue after issue after issue.”

I think it’s the other way around.

Senator Schumer is out of the mainstream.

As a flaming liberal, he is even out of the mainstream in his own party – a party I think is itself out of the mainstream nationally.

And I’m a Democrat!

He is more pro-choice and pro-gay than much of the party. If you go to the middle of the country, Democrats there are what Republicans are in New York.

Unless the national party pulls back more into the mainstream, it will continue to suffer electoral failure after failure after failure.

Unless, of course, President Bush continues to screw up.

At least we have another Senator in New York.

Oh, right.

Hillary.