Posted on 09/04/2004 12:31:34 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Politics: Two parties? It's more like two planets. Republicans have embraced the struggle against terror as their defining cause. Democrats keep trying to change the subject, but reality gets in their way.
It's not just that the Republicans and Democrats have their usual programmatic differences. These are significant, especially in health care, taxes and entitlement reform. But the divide this year runs deeper than usual, right down to basic definitions of reality.
But with unemployment at 5.4%, the same level it was when Bush's father was elected in 1988 and Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996, the jobs picture just isn't bad enough to rattle people and get 9-11 out of their heads.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Democrats and reality make for about as natural and unforced a pairing as (say) "ham and lava," or "Batman and Streisand." :)
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