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Scaredy-cat Dems

You think you've lost patience with the do-nothing Democrats? Well, Molly Ivins has had it:

I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there.."

And she was just getting started. Her rant reached climax at mid-column:

Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the sheer gutlessness and spinelessness of the Democratic performance. The party is still cringing at the thought of being called, ooh-ooh, "unpatriotic" by a bunch of rightwingers.

Take "unpatriotic" and shove it.

And that's what the Democrats should have been saying since 9/11 changed everything.

Except they're cowards.

Ivins lists three "good issues" that Democrats need to run with:

• Get out of Iraq

• Full public funding of political campaigns

• Single-payer health insurance
  

If Democrats really want to "change everything" for the better, tackling these three issues is the way to start. Sure, very powerful moneyed interests will kick and scream and threaten. But with courageous Democratic leadership, Americans would support all three. It could work. Democrats could lead America back on the right road.

Except they're cowards.