Neither the Democrats in power nor the Republicans who crave it have disclosed their plans for how to move the nation forward post-November elections. Win or lose, each party should have a tentative platform of how it will lead the American people in 2011. Yet neither does?
No wonder there is an "enthusiasm gap" separating the President and Democratic Congress from their base. What will happen if Democrats turn out as their leaders urge, to cast their ballots? They can't even hold their noses, for lack of a smell. Who can be enthusiastic about nothing?
No wonder the Republicans are held in such low esteem. They apparently have no new ideas in their heads, only cutting taxes and more wild spending, thereby enlarging the deficit.
Important national problems cry out for solution in 2011, but which will be approached and how is a guessing game for now. No wonder so many Americans will stay home in November, wondering...
Where's the plan?
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