Democrats attempt to create a vision: E.J. DIONNE/Edit/Wapo

[kpete]

Some snippets from: E.J. DIONNE JR. THE WASHINGTON POST

The Conventional Wisdom that Republicans are clear about what they believe deserves to be challenged.

But the Democrats will never fully expose the Republicans' contradictions without a clear – forgive me – vision of their own and that's why this business about Compacts and Covenants could yet be constructive.

Consider this vision statement: "The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government or economics – or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."
The words are Franklin D. Roosevelt's

Whatever message Democrats come up with, they will continue to lose ground and be untrue to what's best in their tradition if they fail to stand up for this affirmative government role in enhancing both individual liberty and self-sufficiency.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051108/news_lz1e8dionne.html

[electropop]

1. That means forcing our leaders to return to our values and

issuing widely-used talking points every day.

[chaumont58]

2. How to get a message that will satisfy the DLC

I think the DLC is a real problem for the Democratic Party, and I don't see it going away.