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OP-ED: Rove and company are pushing partisan politics to new heights
by Scott Koenig
Forum | 1/27/04
Posted online at 3:07 AM EST on 1/27/04
There are some pretty disturbing revelations in that book, but nothing compares to the recent comments made by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. While Ivins and DuBose are shall we say, a bit biased against the president, O'Neill has openly said that he will probably vote for him in November. So to hear that watching our President in meetings was like watching "a blind man in a room full of deaf people" from one of his supporters is chilling, and invites speculation on just how bad a politician's performance must be to make a man vote cross-party.
I'm proud to be a Democrat, but mostly because we are the party that opposes the Bush administration. Unfortunately, the supposed rising stars within the party all lack spines, and cower in the face of the juggernaut. Except perhaps Howard Dean, but sadly, he's insane...Howard Dean Iowa Scream, anyone?
I want to be liberal because I have given careful consideration to important issues and arrived at the conclusions on my own, not because I'm clinging desperately to the liberal party out of fear of its slow but steady slide into oblivion.
For the time being, however, it looks like I don't have much choice if I want the country to return to a reasonable degree of common sense. But I am a visionary! Someday I will launch a new political party. I'll call it the Sensible Party. I'll take most of the principles of the Democrats, mix in a little Green Party idealism (though Ralph Nader need not apply) and combine that with the ruthless efficiency of the Republicans. We'll be unstoppable, yet ethically sound. The Democratic Party has its Democrats. The GOP has its Republicans. And we shall be...Senseis.
I'm proud to be a Democrat, but mostly because we are the party that opposes the Bush administration. Unfortunately, the supposed rising stars within the party all lack spines, and cower in the face of the juggernaut. Except perhaps Howard Dean, but sadly, he's insane...Howard Dean Iowa Scream, anyone?
I want to be liberal because I have given careful consideration to important issues and arrived at the conclusions on my own, not because I'm clinging desperately to the liberal party out of fear of its slow but steady slide into oblivion.
For the time being, however, it looks like I don't have much choice if I want the country to return to a reasonable degree of common sense. But I am a visionary! Someday I will launch a new political party. I'll call it the Sensible Party. I'll take most of the principles of the Democrats, mix in a little Green Party idealism (though Ralph Nader need not apply) and combine that with the ruthless efficiency of the Republicans. We'll be unstoppable, yet ethically sound. The Democratic Party has its Democrats. The GOP has its Republicans. And we shall be...Senseis.
