Captain Ed examines Nancy Pelosi's nuanced response to President Bush. Excerpt:

Pelosi's leadership has been the ruin of her party. She has helped perpetuate the poisonous atmosphere in DC, and her ungracious comments today as well as her knee-jerk reaction to blame everyone but herself for her failure will not appeal to a campaign-weary American electorate. The Democrats need to quit demanding bipartisanship and start exhibiting it, and they need real leaders willing to work across the aisle rather than spit across it. If the Democrats want to compete in 2006, they need to jettison the Pelosis, McAuliffes, and Carvilles of their party now.

When the Democrats nominated Pelosi, I was giddy. After all, the worst attributes of the Democrats would be on permanent display to the country. People needed to become aware of just how demented the party leadership had become. Now? I think it's time for the Dem's to grow up. I saw what happened to the Democrats when they were in charge of the House for 40 years. I suspect that the same will eventually happen to the Republicans if they remain in power indefinitely. The best preventative medicine to such an occurrence is for the Democrats to finally come to grips with the problems within their party. And fix them, too. However, I'll settle for the Donkeys just acknowledging that they have issues to address. Kind of the first step in their 12-step program of party rehabilitation.

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