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Self-Deluding spin on both sides

By E. J. Dionne | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 | The Washington Post

Political analyst E. J. Dionne trains his spotlight on the impact of last week’s Democratic surge on the balance of power and the flavor of the spin between parties and within the Democratic Party itself. In particular, he voices alarm at early signs of the rebirth of a rift that fractured the Democrats just before Newt Gingrich et al captured the Congress with their Contract With America. This split was a nasty one between the Democratic party’s centrists and its progressives. Dionne urges them to avoid the old bad blood, lay down their weapons immediately and use their new power intelligently. In his words:

“Holding this coalition together will require subtlety and an acknowledgment that the comfortable old battles of the 1980s and ’90s are irrelevant to 2006 and 2008. The old arrangements are dead, a truth that both parties need to recognize.”…BS

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