Sure, at heart it's just another opportunistic partisan attack ad. But it's also one of the more clever political ads I've seen in while. The DNC has taken GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe's recent words – "being a Republican moderate sometimes feels like being a cast member of 'Survivor'" – to their logical extreme. It's one minute of shamefully gleeful nose-thumbing, as the Democratic Party welcomes Arlen Specter into its fold.
But, as Sen. Bernie Sanders recently noted during a post-Specter-switch interview, if Democrats can't use their newfound supermajority to pass real legislation bringing America's energy, workers' rights and healthcare policies in line with what most citizens actually want, then they deserve to be voted off their own island.
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Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.
