Senate hopeful Al Franken refuses to admit that bickering liberal partisans and their divisive food fight with conservatives are a root cause of our country's problems:

"There's a new progressive majority that's emerging in this country.... We know what we want. We want universal healthcare, we want an economy that works for everybody, we want a green economy that creates jobs, we want a world-class education for all our kids, and we want to restore our standing in the world, and that means getting out of Iraq.

Doesn't he understand that no one wants to hear that kind of hate speech anymore?

Why reinforce the idea that the public is ready for a partisan progressive agenda, instead of recognizing the transformative role of Reagan's "party of ideas," which rose in opposition to the deeply unpopular tax-and-spend liberalism that Franken is hearkening back to?