The goals listed in Nancy Pelosi's 100 hour plan should warm the heart of any reasonable American.  But lists are not strategies, and the 100 hour plan merely covers putting these goals before the president.  As best I can tell, the strategy behind the 100 hour plan boils down to this:

Appeasement is hardly a new thing.  The British well remember Neville Chamberlain's strategy of appeasement in World War II. And now they consider our President Bush a greater threat than Korea's Kim Il-sung. We need to pay attention. Or we could repeat Chamberlain's error of appeasement.

The most glaring deficit of the appeasement strategy is not merely that it is incapable of achieving the goals of the Democratic party, but that it will leave Democrats defenseless against guileful assault by Republicans and a misinformed mass media:

• The media will deride Democrats for the impending severe fallout from the war on Iraq, because the Democrats will have failed to develop and publicize exonerating evidence. 

• The media will praise the President for signing appeasement legislation, such as raising the minimum wage, because the Democrats have failed to highlight the infinitely more important issue of our country's continuing trend away from Constitutional government. 

• The media will commend yet another miraculous drop in gas prices just before the 2008 elections, because the Democrats have failed to address and correct record high oil profits.

Given the disastrous consequences of naive appeasement, it is imperative that we develop Democratic Congressional priorities to

• Reaffirm inalienable rights enumerated by our founding fathers and abrogated by the President.

• Banish current and future enemies of the Constitution from government.

• And finally, pursue the normal business of government.

Given the stakes, I suggest that every reasonable American begin to shout and holler, rather than simply wait and see.

Jim Williams