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Saturday, March 25, 2006
How The Democrats Can Get It Together
The Democratic Party has been taking hits for its lack of unified and effective response to the mess that the Republicans have gotten us into. Even The New Yorker magazine, which is staunch anti-Bush in its commentary, offers a thumbs down -- "pathetic and ungrammatical" -- on the new Democratic slogan for the 2006 Congressional campaign, "Together, We Can Do Better."So I have come to the rescue. After all, how hard is it to write a slogan that is better than that? Even I can do it.
So -- are you listening, Howard Dean?
The Democratic Party Vision for 2006 is:
America The Bountiful
Yes. America the bountiful -- a place of abundant jobs, where education and health care becomes available to all, where a strong military protects the homeland and is used judiciously elsewhere, where the environment is respected and protected, and where there is an end to government by privilege.
Who wouldn't vote for this? Ah, you may ask. Iraq? The word isn't anywhere in the vision above, only hinted at. Murtha's idea, adjusted for better public relations, will do. We will declare that within a few months we have done all we can do, that we have empowered the Iraqis to take it from here. We can say that our investment has made it possible for them to create a country where a fledgling democracy, with all its difficulties and even its violent enemies, can endure because they have been inspired by us to carry on the great fight. And then we can hunt our real enemies.
That, Mr. Cheney, is the view of a Democratic Party that was in charge during World War II -- a party that, yes, you can trust America's defense to.
Posted by:Lary Bloom at 6:32 AM
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