Comedian Lewis Black's summary of the two parties seems apt: The Democratic Party is the party of no ideas; the Republican Party is the party of bad ideas. Congress works this way: a Republican gets up and says, "I have a really bad idea." Then a Democrat gets up and says, "And I can make it shittier."
FWIW, Howard Dean recently said, "We all agree that 2006 must be a transition year in Iraq. While we may have different ideas about tactics and timing, it’s clear we must change course. The vision of strategic redeployment set forward by Brian Katulis and former Reagan Defense Department official Lawrence Korb offers a likely roadmap to success that we can coalesce around."
Here is a link to the Katulis and Korb plan that Dean apparently favors:
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-t...oints-headlines