"the party of bureaucrats"

A couple of morsels from Orrin Judd on the Dems:

Here's how badly the Democrats have positioned themselves: Dean's statements about Saddam today are being referred to as doing "damage control". When the capture of a mass murdering dictator by your own nation is damaging to your political prospects, it's time to ask yourself what the heck you're doing.... link

It seems hardly a coincidence that the decline of the Democratic Party tracks so closely with the decline of industrial unions and the rise of civil service unions. There's something appealing about a party that fights for factory workers--something repulsive about the party of bureaucrats...link