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They shoot donkeys, don't they? (Democratic Party) (editorial)

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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19900326
Author:Zuckerman, Mortimer B.

THEY SHOOT DONKEYS, DON'T THEY?

Whatever became of the Democratic Party? Well, there is Dan Rostenkowski, Ways and Means chairman, putting up a politically courageous program on the deficit, Majority Leader Richard Gephardt calling for America to seize the opportunity for world leadership, and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan with a clever idea on Social Security that would impose fiscal reality on the administration. Good ideas, all of them, but all derided as much by other Democrats as by Republicans. To paraphrase Canadian essayist Stephen Leacock, the Democratic Party has ...

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