The response to Gustav was a triumph of Democratic Party principles.
A. We believe that government is necessary and that honest, well-thought-out policies work.
B. They work because of oversight: a free press, paying attention; legislative bodies investigating and overseeing. They work because well funded agencies with experienced educated people run them. They work becaue they have reasonable standards of judging what works and what doesn't.
C. Science is good.
D. We are all one. If one of us is wounded we are all wounded, if one has bad education, all do, if a city drowns full of people, we have all drowned and we all have to do womthing about it.
E. God is worshipped (or not) but He or She has no political agenda. In fact,we beleive, like the liberals we are, that we have been blessed with brains to solve our problems.
F. We can learn from experience.
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