Quip of the Day
WaPo takes a stick to the Democrat Party for their latest platform in a column titled Democrats Meander in a New New Direction:
It was a handsome booklet, full of homey photographs and popular proposals, but there was a problem. Democrats have had more "New Directions" recently than MapQuest.
The article lists the seven (count 'em, seven) campaign slogans that Democrats have gone through this year (and it's only September).
- Culture of Corruption. That one looked like a propagandist's dream until the inevitable stink of corruption wafted out of a freezer full of cash and it just went down hill from there.
- Culture of Cronyism. From the party of Byrd and Clinton? This one took off like the Hindenberg.
- Do-Nothing Congress. Yep, nothing like adopting a slogan that draws attention to the fact that you are a party of obstructionists.
- Rubber-Stamp Congress. An about-face from the previous slogon so fast that it gave people whiplash.
- Together, We Can Do Better. Yep, better than Democrats.
- Together, America Can Do Better. Trying to wrap a terrorist-coddling message in the flag didn't really help.
- Six for '06. Typically, they picked the wrong six.
For those keeping score at home, Democrats arrived at "New Direction" yesterday by downgrading one of the "Six for '06" issues (health care) and upgrading three others (honesty, civility and fiscal discipline), for a total of eight items on the contents page.
Of course, this being a paper written by those in the overwhelmingly-liberal profession of journalism, they have to make the Republicans sound even worse:
By contrast, Republicans have settled on a single, unofficial slogan, which essentially says: Vote Democrat and Die. And in politics, scary and scurrilous usually trumps elaborate and earnest -- something Pelosi has experienced firsthand in recent days.
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posted 15 September 06