At this huge movable feast promised by Obama, Howard Dean is the Maitre D’ and Obama the sommelier, holding the keys aloft to a table full of thirsty supplicants, hands outstretched and dreams of drunken pleasure awash in their heads.
That certainly sums it up directly for many who vote for liberals. If one includes among the supplicants those who want government to pursue THEIR favorite cause (”the poor,” “the environment,” etc.), your depiction covers them all very succinctly.