Last Friday, blogger Chris Elam began a post on the struggling Democrats as follows:
By now, you may have heard about the group of Democrats who held a photo-op in front of a statue of FDR to protest Bush’s plans to reform Social Security.
Actually, not if you read the Chronicle, which got around to commenting on the “olds” yesterday.
The “olds” from Gebe Martinez comes in the form of a news editorial of sorts, but the analysis is lacking much insight beyond the notion that the Democrats think they can’t just be the party that says “no” to President Bush, but all they can seem to agree on at the moment is that they oppose his proposed Social Security reforms. Frankly, there’s better and more timely analysis of the woes of the minority party on any number of political blogs, on the right and left.
Given Stephen G. Smith’s credentials, we were hopeful the Chron‘s new D.C. bureau head would improve the newspaper’s national political coverage, or at least begin to justify the bureau’s continued existence. Now, we’re just hopeful this isn’t his idea of improvement.
