OK, I'm Impressed

Dr X. posts this from a raucous DLC meeting in Connecticut:

"I have been a trifle unkind in my political assessments recently. I wish to highlight two good things that have happened recently:

"Massachusetts has enacted universal healthcare. Yes, good old Tax-a-chusetts. The state where your taxes are a little higher, but your unemployed uncle can get decent healthcare if he gets hit by a bus or has a stroke.

"San Francisco may soon do the same.

"This is not so easy to do. California, with a Democratic state assembly and governor never got to universal healthcare. Clinton, with a Democratic Congress, never got to universal healthcare. It's hard for people to support you when you fail to act on your espoused beliefs in power.

"Here is my advice for Democrats everywhere: if you want to be in power again, don't count on the GOP's mistakes to get you elected. DO SOMETHING. In places where you are in power, DELIVER universal healthcare, better education, safer streets, more efficient government. SHOW people you aren't a bunch of single-issue stumblebums spouting slogans while trolling for the next campaign contribution.

"Do this, and you will rule for a generation. Fail to do it, and you will keep getting what you're getting - dictators with marketing departments."