The Republican Agenda

Via Andrew Sullivan, this quote from Patrick Ruffini:

In the minority, our job is to 1) make the majority’s life miserable, grinding the House and Senate floors to a halt, and building a narrative of the Democrats as broken and incompetent, and 2) offer big, bold alternatives to this mess like the Contract did in 1994.

Ruffini goes on to offer some possible agenda items in an agenda of "change." They're laughable:

* A total ban on earmarks (Yeah, good luck on that one, coming from the Earmark Party.)

* Let the half of Federal workers due to retire in the next few years retire – and don’t replace them (Say, didn't Bill Clinton do that? Nothing like a fresh idea.)

* Personal Social Security accounts (And we've seen how popular that was -- among Wall Street brokers.)

* A 50% cut in farm subsidies (yeah, good luck on that after this week) (I don't even need to comment -- he did it for me.)

* McCain’s idea of replacing supplementing the UN with a league of democracies (Oh, great -- UN Lite, given the unity displayed among the world's democracies under the Bush foreign policy. Sorry, when you've lost it, it's gone.)

I like Sullivan's comment:

Whatever you do, don't cooperate for the common good.

That says it all.