Bring Democracy to Congress Perhaps we should redeploy the democracy experts we have sent to the Middle East and ask them to work on our Congress. The past few days have confirmed that our national government is dysfunctional.
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Which brings us back to those democracy experts we are sending around the world. Let's bring just a few home and ask them to advise our leaders on how to bring democracy to Congress. If we want to sell reason and moderation to our Iraqi allies, we'd be more persuasive if we could have reasonable debates ourselves about how to fund our government and how to conduct our policy in their country.

This is an interesting example of analogic reasoning employed to envelop the argument. It is interesting to note that the intervening paragraphs don't really deal with 'democracy in congress' but rather its more general ills. However, the metaphorical envelope is enough to dry the message home. In an interesting way, it provides both cohesion and coherence to the text (although some traditionalists might object).