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To: DMaA who wrote (17522)	11/24/2003 8:43:18 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793834

Andrew Sullivan HOW SCREWED ARE THE DEMS? Their paleo response to the Medicare bill is truly depressing. There are many reasons to oppose this bill - most importantly that it wll destroy the remaining threads of fiscal hope. But to oppose even experimentation with cost-cutting reforms reveals a party completely bankrupt of new ideas. Then to watch the Dems rake in the pork on the Hooters bill reminds you again of all the reasons you don't trust Democrats with the national government. But ... and it's a big but ... the Republicans' victories are at the price of something else, as Joe Klein points out. The GOP has now no crediibility as a party of fiscal discipline or small government. It's just another tool of special interests - as beholden to them as the Dems are to theirs. Its pork barrel excesses may now be worse than the Dems, and the president seems completely unable or unwilling to restrain them. I know I'm a broken record on this but we truly need some kind of third force again in American politics - fiscally conservative, socially inclusive, and vigilant against terror. Last week has shown us why. SAFIRE WEIGHS IN: It's something of a new media coup when such an old media maven as Bill Safire refers to two online pieces in his New York Times column. And it's a victory for online media that the Saddam-al Qaeda story hasn't been left to die. It's one of the most important of the last ten years. Why aren't the papers throwing all their investigative resources into figuring it out? andrewsullivan.com