Losing Their Grip

I find it highly ironic that just when President Bush's appointee, Janice
Rogers Brown, a sharecropper's daughter who became the first black woman
justice on California's Supreme Court, finally gets confirmed by the U.S.
Senate, the chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean, says: "The
Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. They're a
pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same and they all look the
same. It's pretty much a white, Christian party." I find it also ironic
that only one Democrat voted to confirm Janice Rogers Brown.

The Democratic Party imagine themselves to have a lock on black voters.
Howard Dean's invective is an indication that they are afraid that they may be
losing their grip.