Tom Friedman out-stupids himself

Taking off from his previous column about how he's found the real, centrist, "tea kettle movement," he now talks about how such a fictional critter could nominate a 2012 presidential candidate.

Friedman, among other stupidities (and, don't get me wrong, I'm not a backsliding Obama lover, all of a sudden), overlooks the Senate filibuster:

Obama probably did the best he could do, and that’s the point. The best our current two parties can produce today — in the wake of the worst existential crisis in our economy and environment in a century — is suboptimal, even when one party had a huge majority.

That's my emphasis, re Tommy Teapot ignoring the filibuster. X to block, Tommy!

That said, some of what Tommy Teapot says is true: Both the major parties are bankrupt. But, to have a centrist party, or so-called centrist party, split the difference between an already centrist party and a party tacking ever further rightward is the wrong prescription.

And, Tommy Teapot, looking for his Brooksian Teapot Bobos, is too stupid to understand that.