Welcome, Lou

The Reasonable Nuts welcome Lou Dobbs (of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight) to the fore of nutty reasonableness. He's penned a fine opinion piece on the middle class and the war he deems waged against them, through special interests and political lobbying.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- I don't know about you, but I can't take seriously anyone who takes either the Republican Party or Democratic Party seriously -- in part because neither party takes you and me seriously; in part because both are bought and paid for by corporate America and special interests. And neither party gives a damn about the middle class.

Dobbs stops one logical leap short of making total sense (rallying the reader 'round the libertarian flag), but he at least suggests every voter change his registration to "independent" as a wake-up message to Republicans and Democrats. He wraps it up with an expression of idealism:

I sincerely hope that we will find the resolve to face these challenges to our way of life, and we do so soon. George Bernard Shaw said, "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

I'm stupid enough to be absolutely sincere in the hope that middle-class America will awake soon and take action.