Reclaiming the party: three suggestions to jump-start the Democrats. (Gazette).

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY--like Enron, the FBI and the Catholic Church--is a dysfunctional institution that cannot reform itself from the inside. If the party were a well-run corporation whose products weren't selling, its board of directors or its CEO would bring in outsiders to give an honest assessment of what was going wrong and engage stakeholders--workers, customers, suppliers--in planning a new strategy.

But the Democrats have neither a competent board of directors nor a responsible CEO. The Democratic National Committee is a worn-down fundraising machine with a chairman, Terry ...

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