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July 05, 2004

Those Senate Democratic Caucus Meetings Must Be Interesting
Posted by Dale Franks

Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) must just be a laugh riot when Senate Democrats get together. In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he writes:

I have been a proud member of the Democratic Party from the time I first breathed the Georgia mountain air. But lately I can barely recognize my once-great party. Between Al Gore's rants, Michael Moore's falsehoods, the felons-for-hire shenanigans of America Coming Together and Moveon.org's crazy conspiracy theories, the Democratic Party has become a coalition of the wild-eyed. Driven by a rabid desire to defeat President Bush, they seem eager to say and do anything to tear him apart...

I still love the Democratic Party — the party of Roosevelt and Truman and Kennedy. But the more screaming and ranting I hear, the more I wonder whether those Democratic heroes of old would find much to be proud of today.

John Kennedy, the man who implemented Reaganomics 20 years before it was called that. Harry Truman, who when the Russians asked for it, kicked ofthe Cold War without apology. FDR, who, seeing the threat of fascism on the horizon, slowly and methodically prepared an isolationist, depression-ridden nation for Word War II.

Don't see many Democrats like that these days.

Zell Miller doesn't love the Democratic Party. He loves what it used to be. Unfortunately, that Democratic Party more or less died in Chicago, in 1968.

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