Instapundit linked up this interesting dissection of the Democratic problem nobody's talking about, their continued reliance on unions: (emphasis original)

But the real problem with laws like Davis-Bacon isn't that they make a few government buildings, highways, and levees, etc., a bit more expensive. It's that--in combination with similar laws that apply to services, and with the civil service laws, and with misguided court decisions that impose special procedural obligations on government (e.g. before workers can be fired or public housing tenants evicted)--they make the private sector more efficient than government at virtually anything both of them do. The result is a pervasive public cynicism about government efficacy that has done more to undermine the case against government action than union lobbying can ever do to support it.

In spite of the gallery's perception of me as a slathering Bush fanatic, I would actually be quite happy if the Dems could field a group of leaders who wouldn't drive the country off the rails as soon as they got their hands on the controls. Unfortunately, if the current "New Orleans writ large" state of modern liberalism is any indication, that's not going to happen any time soon.