About Mad Wombat

Welcome to Mad Wombat (formerly Real Democratic Moderate). This is basically my third attempt to start up my own political blog (hopefully third time is the charm!). The first two blogs basically died because I seem to float in and out of interest in blogging about politics, but hopefully I’ll post on a regular basis right now.

This blog will pretty much have two purposes – the first is to highlight, like many other democratic blogs do, the stupidity and incompetence (or worse) of President Bush and the GOP. However, something else I will attempt to do is to try to keep my liberal democratic brethren in check.

I think I typify the standard Democratic Moderate (I’m sure I’ll expand on all these at one point or another):

• I believe in the democratic brand of helping the less fortunate and prioritizing the middle class over the wealthy.
• I believe in balance between business and other moderate/liberal priorities.
• I support compromise, but not compromise for compromise’s sake.
• I want the Iraq War to end, but I want to do so responsibly.
• I believe that, unless urgent and radical change is shown to be necessary, changes in policies and programs should be taken at a measured, yet steady pace rather than all at once.
• I want to work with liberals to help improve the party, but only if they’re actually willing to respect my moderate views.
• I’m both socially and economically moderate.

I hope that you will find this blog insightful and I hope that I can do my small part in making the democratic party – and the nation – a better place.