party time

i've been thinking about this for a while but this is just rough thoughts.
seems to me that the whole political party thing is not working so well anymore. at least not as we have it now. the religious right really has nothing to do with old-school republicans (see this really good op-ed by sen. danforth). and frankly there are a lot of democrats who don't belong in our party either (cough joe lieberman cough).
there are two streams of issue going on - the political and the economic, and the old dividing lines no longer apply. it's a brave new world folks, and we need to come up with some new ways of addressing it.
hopefully more republicans wil be empowered to break ranks. i know if i was them i would be so furious about what they were doing to my party.
in fact now that i think about it why aren't there more of them screaming bloody murder? we should encourage them.