The Ds have an interesting style. So far, their intra-party disputes are waged in public, which I find a bit refreshing.

Charles Rangel -- longtime proponent of the draft for socioeconomic reasons -- has been rebuffed. D leadership says a draft is inappropriate now.

Agreed. I of course say it's always inappropriate, for a draft creates incentives to wage wars of choice. And a draft -- no matter how you cut it -- is involuntary servitude.

-Robert Capozzi