Dennis Miller will soon begin a daily one hour talk show on CNBC. He will not be running against Barbara Boxer (whom he deems a "moron" in this Time Magazine interview) for the Senate seat in California next year.

It is fascinating that while big liberal donors such as the Drobnys in Chicago, have been seeking to fund an alternative left wing talk radio network, little by little the cable news networks, other than Fox (which the left already considers a conservative mouthpiece) , are adding conservative hosts tp their daily menu. MSNBC gave former Florida Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough a daily hour.

Now with Miller, the Democrats will have to put up with a  smart, quick conservative defender of Bush, who is actually funny, as opposed to  somebody who laughs at most of us, in the Al Franken way.  Then consider  the New York Times giving David Brooks, a calm,  moderate sounding conservative a twice weekly column, and on Tuesday directly pairing his balanced and nuanced touch with Paul Krugman's "Bush is evil" spleen venting.

The left is going to need a lot more than a radio network. With Saddam gone, the economy rolling, a Medicare prescription drug benefit,  a  likely Presidential candidate who appeals only to  truly committed Bush haters, and potentially five open Democratic held Senates seats to defend in the South, 2004 could be a nightmare year for the mules who more and more, insist on behaving like mules.

Posted by Richard 12 14 03