Two parties

Democrats' new strategy: Almost winning: "Just for the record, 'his cuts to education funding' are cuts only in the sense that Hackett's performance in the Ohio election was a tremendous victory: that's to say, Bush's 'cuts to education funding' are in fact an increase of roughly 50 percent in federal education funding." "Republicans may see the increasingly arthritic, corpulent, wheezing, flatulent Democratic Party as a boon for them, but I don't. Two-party systems need two parties, not just for the health of the loser but for that of the winner, too. Intellectually, philosophically, legislatively, it's hard to maintain the discipline to keep yourself in shape when the other guy just lies around the house all day."