"Drinking Liberally"

It may just be the fact that I am a non-drinker who has some kind of distorted view of the practice of imbibing tasty intoxicants, but there is something desperately funny to me about this new development among political liberals.

"We thought, there's got to be something we can do," said Krebs. "Then we realized that what we were doing right then and there: drinking could be the answer to what we wanted to accomplish." They soon set up a Drinking Liberally happy hour at Rudy's, which has continued every Thursday night since...Drinking Liberally hit it big last August, during the Republican National Convention in New York, when the bloggers Atrios and Kos got word of the group and introduced it to the blogosphere. Soon, Boise, Philadelphia, Columbus, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Boston and St. Louis set up chapters, and by Election Day, there were 17 nationwide...Sobering as the election results were for liberals, Drinking Liberally hasn't suffered -- in fact, it's shown tremendous growth. There are now more than 50 chapters and bigger weekly turnouts since November 2 than before.

Ahem. Pardon me, but when a large portion of people turn to drink en masse after a major emotional upset, isn't that usually a bad sign?! I find this so funny. Group intoxication as a political movement. It is any wonder some liberals are declaring liberalism "dead"?