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With the convention coming up shortly, much blather is often written about party platforms. In recent decades these documents, particularly, alas, on the D side of the aisle, have become bland and mushy meanderings, designed to appeal to all, offend none, and stupefy anyone foolish enough to attempt to actually read the thing.

This was not always the case. Here's my thought: We ought to hack into the party database, list off the tops of our heads the first couple of hundred offenses Bushco has perpetrated against the body politic, and conclude with this, preferably read by the Rev. Al Sharpton:

That all these things have been done with the knowledge, sanction, and procurement of the present National Administration; and that for this high crime against the Constitution, the Union, and humanity, we arraign that Administration, the President, his advisers, agents, supporters, apologists, and accessories, either before or after the fact, before the country and before the world; and that it is our fixed purpose to bring the actual perpetrators of these atrocious outrages and their accomplices to a sure and condign punishment thereafter.

And when the media mavens and spokespersons of the Other Side have been revived with smelling salts from their fainting couches, and start to burble and whine all over themselves about how we are all just a bunch of MEANIES to say such awful things, we can confess where we got the idea:

the platform of the Republican Party, 1856.
(with thanks to Meteor Blades over at dKos)