“The dwindling stars of today’s Democratic Party expend most of their energy jumping through the ever smaller hoops of an ever kookier fringe”
Meanwhile, the GOP has its own problems:
Big-time Republicans tell me Bush’s profligacy is doing a great job of neutralizing the Dem advantage in the spending-is-caring stakes. This may have been true initially — in the same sense as undercover cops neutralize a massive heroin-smuggling operation by infiltrating it. But, if they’re still running the heroin operation five years later, it looks less like neutralization and more like a change of management.
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