Monday, November 13, 2006

The Task Ahead

In today's Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby outlines what the Democratic party needs to do. Here is how he starts:
During their long years in the wilderness, Democrats lashed out against trade and globalization, even though denying the economic case for trade is like pretending that tax cuts pay for themselves. Now that they have won Congress, the Democrats must prove that they are more than the mirror image of their opponents. This means reviving the pro-market centrism of the Clinton era.