<...Democrats should have demanded a roll back of the Bush inequitable tax program, which over the next 10 years will give 37.6 percent of the $1.3 trillion in tax reductions to the top one percent of taxpayers. They should have called for a comprehensive national medical insurance program with prescription drug coverage that will cover the current 40 million of uninsured Americans, many of whom are working full-time.

...Now the Democratic Party will choose a new parliamentary leader to replace Dick Gephardt. The frontrunner is Nancy Pelosi, who is in the left wing of the party. She is supported by radical Democrats such as Congressman John Conyers, who recently urged her candidacy over Congressman Harold E. Ford, Jr., a moderate. If she moves the party further to the radical left and undoes everything that President Clinton did to move the party to center left, the Democratic Party will truly be undone.



The fact that one brain is actually capable of assembling these two paragraphs in sequence without noticing the glaring contradictions probably explains a lot about the problems of the Democratic Party.