If the biggest complaint by Dems is that they are having trouble getting their message out why would they rehire the messenger?

Four more years! Pour more beers!

This is glorious news. HRC '08 is now officially kicked off.

More like a captain should be required to go down with his ship.

You know, I predicted this, and still I don't believe it.

Considering the disharmony today in Washington with the Gonzales hearings and the Electoral College protest in Congress, it's actually nice to see something that both Democrats and Republicans can agree upon.

Clinton signs on as second banana on Bush's aid team, Ickes drops out of race for DNC chief, Bush dismantles US aid team and signs on to UN efforts, McAuliffe gets okay to stay on as DNC chief.

Where is this going? Doesn't compute.

Further proof that no human institution can endure.

If Jim Haslett, Mike Tice and Mike Martz can retain their NFL head coaching jobs, McAuliffe can retain his chairmanship. He hasn't done any worse of a job than they have.

McAuliffe is perfect evidence that the Clintons still control the party machinery, that Kerry was not able to translate his primary success into partisan control for him and his sponsors from the Kennedy family. This would make 2008 a true watershed year for the Dems, if they can't make a breakthrough then, they could be done and our long needed realignment could be in the offing.

My goodness, people might actually start debating about economics again.

Bart. I'm 70 years old and I've never heard a debate on economics as it might relate to a presidential election. While the Dems were in power, it was a given that redistribution of income from the workers to the shirkers was the way to get votes. Is that what you mean by a debate on economics?

Currently, we are seeing a movement of manufacturing jobs out of the US. We are also seeing a regulatory edifice being created which makes investment in human capital or the development of physical resources a more difficult proposition than it needs to be. We are faced with an educational system which is not providing large numbers of people with the skills they will need to find employment in the new economy. This is going to lead to a new class bifurcation, between the techies and the non-techies, which could be a serious political problem, threatening to the stability of the republic.

Since both parties are essentially funded by the corporate class, and the Democrats if anything are even more dependent on the largesse of a quixotic class of weird rich people, like Soros and Peter Lewis, these issues have not been discussed in any serious way. The GOP at least takes its money from the merely greedy, while the Democrats take it from people who are not only just as greedy but also interested in pushing pet issues like gay marriage, environmental Luddism or medical marijuana, issues of little to no importance to the vast bulk of American voters.

Currently, we are seeing a movement of manufacturing jobs out of the US. We are also seeing a regulatory edifice being created which makes investment in human capital or the development of physical resources a more difficult proposition than it needs to be. We are faced with an educational system which is not providing large numbers of people with the skills they will need to find employment in the new economy. This is going to lead to a new class bifurcation, between the techies and the non-techies, which could be a serious political problem, threatening to the stability of the republic.

Since both parties are essentially funded by the corporate class, and the Democrats if anything are even more dependent on the largesse of a quixotic class of weird rich people, like Soros and Peter Lewis, these issues have not been discussed in any serious way. The GOP at least takes its money from the merely greedy, while the Democrats take it from people who are not only just as greedy but also interested in pushing pet issues like gay marriage, environmental Luddism or medical marijuana, issues of little to no importance to the vast bulk of American voters.

...cloning...