This is the best explanation of the behavior of the Democratic Party I've ever seen.
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:01:37 -0500, you wrote: > > 1. Put a bunch of gorillas in a cage. > > 2. Put a nice stack of boxes in the cage. > > 3. Then, string a big bunch of bananas from the top of the cage > hanging within arm's reach from the top of the stack of boxes. > > (3a. Okay, put the gorillas in last, or you'll never get to steps 1 > and 2 :-).) > > > 4. When the first gorilla climbs to the top of the boxes to grab the > bananas, do something extremely unpleasant to all the gorillas, like, > say, deluging them with icy water from sprinklers at the top of the > cage, or something. > > Pretty soon, they stop climbing the boxes completely. > > 5. Then, replace the one gorilla. Watch the others physically > restrain him if he tries to go for the bananas. > > Repeat 5 until all the gorillas have been replaced. > > 6. The gorillas will physically assault anyone who climbs the > pyramid, and they won't know why. > > :-).