So far, the Democrats have done a terrible job of uniting their campaign messages into a unified force. We're waging dozens of small battles instead of a single national campaign, with the Bush administration providing the only link. The party remains fractuous and unable to articulate a single message.
I think we can encapsulate why we need a Democratic congress in a simple phrase-- "Stop the Bleeding".
Stop the bleeding of our soldiers in Iraq.
Stop the bleeding of our budget and economy.
Stop the bleeding of the constitution.
Stop the bleeding of the environment.
Stop the bleeding of our standing in the world.
Things have gotten so bad that our common aspiration, our best case to the American people, amd the only realistic thing we can hope to accomplish with a narrow margin in a single house has come to this: to keep things from getting worse. That's where we find ourselves, and Democrats ought to campaign on it openly.
Stop the bleeding.