The great issues of today are not being addressed by the new democrats’ ‘new direction.’  Increasing the minimum wage and spending more on education are neither of them. The obvious ones are winning the war-on-terror, economic policies like making the tax cut permanent, fixing Social Security, educational policies like allowing school choice via the school voucher program (No child left behind), real tort reform, earmark removal just to name a few.  The party has nothing to say about the issues they just ran on. Oh that’s right, it was ‘Bush sucks.’ What is happening now is the party has nothing to say. The minimum wage issue is a standard election issue for every election. The fact that there never was a plan beyond ‘Bush is a liar’ is becoming evident as democrats are being seen as in some state of disarray.Â
I don’t know how this ever got passed the editorial board, but this New York Times headline is an example. After Win, Democrats Revert to Finger-Pointing
