On 6/23/06, Gar Lipow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... You have to understand that in the absense of a left to to divert or even the threat of one, much of the power elite who once saw the Democrats of having a useful role now would just as soon have naked one party rule; they don't need the Democratic fig leaf anymore.
why do they need to "finish off" the Democrats? the DP is dead already, isn't it? it seems like a party whose main goal is to rationalize (clean up) Republican programs, the way George H.W. Bush and Clinton rationalized Reagan's programs. Pres. Hilary would be Dubya lite. -- Jim Devine / "The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer.
