OP-ED: Our One-Party Democracy, By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, New York Times, September 8, 2009

Depressingly accurate description by Friedman. Opportunity is being wasted here. The GOP has alienated so many good thinkers on its side with the social policies stuff and it's beginning to show. The cupboard is increasingly bare on innovative thinking, but even when it appears, it is subsumed to the larger goal of thwarting the Dems.

A very sad situation.