[MEG33]

Sounds good to me.

[ladyinred]

This is absolute baloney.

[spectre]

And not one word about the meanest, most partisan, bitter obstructionist turd in politics today - Tom Daschle.

Gee.

Wonder why?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

The eight years of Clinton awoke a sleeping giant and the left still doesn't get it.

[Mark17]

a domestic program based almost entirely on tax cuts for the wealthy

That is getting to be a stale, tired old line.

[CyberAnt]

Well ... I guess the dems believe putting party before the country is going to get them re-elected ... anybody want to tell them the truth ...?? ... I didn't think so!

[DeFault User]

This is a shock to congressional Democrats, most of whom came to political maturity under the old arrangements that placed a heavy emphasis on comity and the search for the political center.

The old arrangements--when they got what they wanted.

Political comity? Maybe when Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen were alive.

[MJY1288]

I'm surprised this article didn't come with it's own violinist!

The democrats have now become victims, but when they were in control they were acting on behalf of America.

I have a message for these hand wringing leftist. "Stock up on Kleenex, you're gonna need it"

[Imal]

I had to look so far to the left to read this article, my eyes hurt!

[Tall_Texan]

Can you spot the one sentence in this entire column that's not either a misrepresentation of the truth or an out-and-out lie?

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Missed it? Look again...

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Give up?

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Okay, it's this one:

"Bush promised to change the ways of Washington."

That, he did, but he hasn't changed how Washington works one iota (not that Democrats can tell as they seethe about being out of power). He had to compromise to get a piddling only-half-of-the-small-cut-he-began-asking-for tax cut and needed his own Vice President to get it through the Senate.

But Mr. Dionne calls that a "watershed" moment as Bush put the screws to members of his own party to fall in line (which obviously wasn't enough to turn McCain and Snowe, now was it, E.J.?) while being so onerous to Democrats that they all held together...well, except Miller and Nelson.

In short, the column is complete and utter BS from another liberal who is completely blind to anything positive that goes on in Washington because his side didn't win. At least he didn't compare Bush to Hitler or the Taliban. For liberals, I guess that's considered a sign of maturity.

[Consort]

It looks like Dionne managed to get at least thing wrong in each paragraph.

[Jumper]

"1965 and 1966, when Democrats enjoyed 2-1 majorities in both houses"; my, my, how times have changed. So the Viet Nam Conflict was something the democrats agreed upon.

The shrill voice of the Left, screaming injustice upon the establishment.... Both the liberal media and the democrats have done a masterful job of making the 60's protests look as if it were against evil republican policies. In '68 Nixon won in contest to depose the warmonging democrats, a fact lost on Americans today. In '72 Nixon opened China, coupled with the wheat deal to the Soviet Union (economics at work to negotiage security agreements) and the SALT. Pitival moments in American history. Since Nixon, the democrats have been losing majorities locked in by the New Deal Democrats of the '30s.

The democrat party will continue to lose seats and elections until as such time they offer genuine alternatives to Republican initiatives, e.g., ideas that have merit and can be "paid" by reasonable taxes - something with which this party has no experience and no people capable thereof.

[PoisedWoman]

And because Democrats have such a diverse congressional party, the price they pay for unity is the blunting of differences. That means the party is often forced to deliver fuzzy messages.

FOTFLMAO....Now the spin is that the DemonRats are FORCED to deliver fuzzy messages? By their own diversity?

How about, "The Democrats don't have a message, or a clue for that matter, and are hopelessly bogged down by their preference for feeeeeeling and lack of logical thinking. If they had a brain, they'd be dangerous to themselves and others."

[Spyder]

Wow. This one's so out there I expected to look up to the source and see the Onion.

[boris]

"A narrow Republican majority will work its partisan will, no matter what."

Just as the Democrats have for the last 40 years.

[Carry_Okie]

"GOP ferocity"?

Frist has all the feroicty of a wet noodle in heat.

[Political Junkie Too]

Bush is so determined to push through a domestic program based almost entirely on tax cuts for the wealthy...

He means tax cuts for the tax payers.

-PJ

[WOSG]

i am deeply saddened by the partisan nature of this commentary. so many charged and biased words.
cant we all just get along?

[Paul_B]

I never read Dionne, for reasons that I hope are obvious. But I couldn't resist the blurb to this piece of garbage.

What a load of you know what. Dionne is one great reason to avoid the WP's op ed pages. The WP house editorials have been making some progress, but their op eds weigh them down - especially now, without the much-missed Michael Kelly.

[ultima ratio]

Here's my favorite line: "This [Bush's tax cut] is a shock to congressional Democrats, most of whom came to political maturity under the old arrangements that placed a heavy emphasis on comity and the search for the political center."

Nothing anybody can say can out-parody this ludicrous statement.