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• Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:28 PM

  "What Democrats Need"

  ... is to have their asses kicked back into the corporate boardrooms from which they came until they (a.) stop listening to Republican strategists and (b.) start listening to The American People.

  Your magnanimous advice smacks ever so slightly of desperation, but, rest easy, Rich.

  There is ZERO doubt - none whatsoever - that you and Frank Luntz still have the ears of today's Democratic Party. Their resolute subservience to the GOP Agenda (whatever it may be at any given moment, but, hey, at least they're flexible), will not change one iota until its base demonstrates a willingness to punish them more severely than Republicans ever could.

  Luckily for you and the millions of fear-mongering cheerleaders hailing The Unitary Executive, Democratic loyalists lack the fortitude to inflict such a punishment. In fact, they utterly refuse to believe that doing so is, and will remain, the first step in reforming their failed, broken party.

  So put away the Sonata and beta-blockers, Rich. You won't need them for a long, long time.

  P.S. Hey, all you rubber-neckers, why not fashion some collegial entertainment out of the inevitable responses here: Every time a response features the line, "What democrats need..." take a drink! It won't prove any more detrimental than it did the first six years. Better start with a full stomach, though, because the hangover is a bitch.

  P.S. AGAIN: Way to go, Joan Walsh! I can hardly wait to see the next addition to your support team.

  —Arvin Hill Read Arvin Hill's other letters
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