AND 1920 WAS PAYBACK FOR NOT JOINING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Real Live Democrats (Harold Meyerson, June 4, 2003, Washington Post)

[D]emocrats have perfected myriad ways to lose. Just as they estranged moderate voters in 1972, when George McGovern went down to a resounding defeat, they also failed to rally their core supporters in the debacles of 1994 and 2002, the first of which turned Congress over to the Republicans, the second of which gave it to them again. In 1994, the backlash against the Democrats' failure to enact health insurance was augmented by union members' discontent with the Democrats' success at enacting NAFTA.

As a member of the stupid party, I'm far too simple-minded to follow the complexities of liberal thought, but if Mr. Meyerson is really saying that the 1994 Republican Revolution was payback from the voters because Democrats failed to pass HillaryCare, I want a recount on the IQ scores of the respective parties. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 5, 2003 8:29 AM