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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

The Other Reason Why Dems Must Be Unified

Kevin Drum over at the Washington Monthly makes a great point about votes like CAFTA that I failed to make: Democrats need to do a better job of sticking together not only because it is the right thing to do and it will help them make a sharper message, they also need to stick together in order to make things harder for conseratives, by forcing them to take tough votes. In other words, unity is not only good policy and politics for Democrats, its makes things really bad for Republicans.

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