Dean’s Band of Outsiders By Harold Meyerson

By winning office with a negative 540,000-vote margin and then proceeding to govern in the most relentlessly partisan fashion from the right, the president has made unmistakably clear that the concerns of Democrats are of no interest to him. On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, the Republican leadership relies solely on Republican votes to get its measures passed, going so far as to exclude mainstream Democrats from conference committees. When America’s new laws are to be negotiated, Republicans talk only to themselves. …

In this Congress … no Democrats are allowed into the deliberations that matter. …

Bush is bent on repealing the New Deal and replacing the internationalist order that the United States had erected after World War II with a more nationalist vision of his own. If you aren’t with him, you are against him. And he is against you.

Remember in 2000, how Bush called himself “a uniter, not a divider” and touted his bipartisan efforts in Texas? Liar.

Meyerson goes on to explain why these facts have benefitted Dean, while many Democrats ignore these truths. (Thanks to Sharon for noting this article.) mjh