THE NAIVETE OF THE DEMOCRATS. The American Spectator's Jeffery Lord offers a polemical version of last night's gripe.

You mean all those LBJ Great Society programs didn't provide care for the sick, secure good jobs for the jobless and take care of the environment? On the off-chance the Internet has a space limitation, let's settle for a partial listing of LBJ's efforts for the sick, the jobless, the environment and more as reflected in the list of legislation he proudly compiled and boasted of in his presidential memoir The Vantage Point.

He goes on at great length to suggest that this year's Democratic presidential platform is likely to be more of the same Utopian Wonkery.