Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Points will be some resolutions for Democrats. For once, I will keep a foolish resolution I made at the beginning of 2008 to write shorter columns, because this close to New Year's Day it's about all I can handle writing (and probably about all you folks can handle reading).

I have to limit this to Democrats, as well,...