"It is clear that Don Cravins shares our commitment to restoring fiscal discipline and commonsense to the federal government, and we are proud to offer him our endorsement today."
I'm glad to see Rep. Ross using the term fiscal discipline rather than fiscal conservative. The Democrats are the party of fiscal discipline ... after all, Democrats believe in paying as you go, whereas the Republicans (believers of fiscal conservativism) want to starve government of the funds necessary to fund programs like Social Security, Medicare, and SCHIP, so that we have run deficits to fund them ... like we have for the past 8 years.
Today - July 31st - is also Don Cravins, Jr's birthday. His 36th. If you can, send $36 to help him celebrate in the upper left corner, or here.
We progressives call Mary Landrieu a Democrat In Name Only (along with Joe Lieberman and Charlie Melancon), and we expend a lot of vitriol about the DLC and the Blue Dogs. So, what makes someone a 'real Democrat' or a 'DINO'?
Is it coherence/fidelity to the party platform?
Let me be the first person to admit that I haven't slogged through the whole of the Democratic Party's 2004 platform. I suppose we'll be expecting the platform committee to be producing a new one this year.
It's a long and complex document, and full of prose. Can we perhaps at least work on an 'elevator speech' approach instead?
