MoveOn.org to Liberals: Choose three positive ideas - A short news article that both points Democrats in the right direction (positive stances which help people) and also inadverantly reveals why the Democratic party will probably remain doomed, despite so much recent help from Republicans.

MoveOn.org's top ten contenders are:

Living wage for all - Economically literate translation: Massive unemployment for the poor

Global leadership through diplomacy - Because merely talking to psychotic totalitarian leaders has always proved so effective in the past. (Ask Neville Chamberlain.)

Verifiable, accurate elections - where "accurate" presumably will not include trying to prevent overvoting. (Otherwise, they'd have my backing here.)

High quality education for all - maybe we just need to spend more money?

Balanced federal budget - in which liberals suddenly pretend to be far right-wing conservatives. Pray tell, how will this be achieved without cutting spending?

Health care for all - The Beatles: "You say you want a revolution ... we'd all love to see the plan." After this, perhaps we can discuss cold fusion.

Publicly funded elections - to ensure even RICH non-politicians can't disrupt the inbred process in Washington DC

Preserve our natural resources - because McDonald's is now running Yellowstone Park and Yosemite

Energy independence: clean, renewable sources - Which ones? Do they mean the ones which take more energy than they deliver (ethanol, solar, wind)? Or the ones with harmful environmental consequences (ethanol, solar, wind, hydro)? Or the imaginary ones (hemp)? Or the one green energy source Democrats (aside from Carter) won't touch (nuclear)?

Restored constitutional rights - Because you can no longer burn a flag! Oh wait, you still can. Because gay people have no right to assemble in public and have parades. Oh wait, they can. Because Der BusHitler has removed all liberal opinions and voices from the media. Oh wait, he hasn't.... so, um, which rights were those again? (See below.)

Again, at a 40,000-foot level, these all sound good. But the devil's surely in the details: If these phrases have their usual meanings, we're looking at a list of ideas which will crumble under close scrunity. As an analogy, I can suggest "let's all share everything", which sounds great, but the hard truth is that communism was a global machine for mass murder.

Here's my suggested counter-list:

Improve education with vouchers - Let people make choices with the cash we put towards their kids, and move their kids from failing schools into ones that work.

Greener power through nuclear - The big reason European skies are cleaner than American ones? A HUGE percentage of Europe's power generation is nuclear. But the pretend "environmentalists" clearly want us to keep burning coal.

Balance the budget - By cutting taxes (thus further increasing tax receipts) and slashing federal spending. (Do we really need the National Endowment for the Arts to select what kind of "art" shall be created for us, and by whom?)

Restore lost constitutional rights - Such as the right to say anything I want, politically, at any time -- lost to the McCain Feingold act pushed by liberals and signed by Bush. And such as the right to be secure in one's property against seizure; lost in the Kelo v. New London decision.

De-lawyerize society - Why should every single item (including healthcare) be made so much more expensive due to a huge, hidden "tax" which goes to lawyers? My simple suggestion would be to ensure that the loser pays. Bye-bye, frivolous lawsuits.

These ideas are probably also doomed also for various reasons. For one liberals would never touch them with a ten-foot pole because they tend to cut into their core constituencies. For another, they tend to require voters learn something -- such as economics, or about the feasibility of most "alternative" energy sources. These suggestions are, frankly, to the "right" of even today's Republicans.

But at least they are clearly defined, easily implemented, and, unlike those suggested by MoveOn.org, would actually work.