[lbo-talk] Why the Democrats Are Doomed in '04, Part XIXVI

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 25 17:10:27 PST 2003


mike larkin wrote:


>What Democrats failed to understand, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
>said in an interview on Monday morning, is that Republicans "are on
>an ideological march. They have no intention of playing fair. They
>want what they want whe! n they want it." And they get it.

Is there something wrong with that? What's this playing fair crap? Who said politics is about playing fair? This is as odious as all that stuff about "civility."


>"I don't mean to be alarmist, but this is the end of parliamentary
>democracy as we have known it, " said Rep. Barney Frank of
>Massachusetts.

We had a parliamentary democracy? When was that?

Doug



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