In the current scheme of things our party is irrelevant they can't make any policy and the Republicans are slated to change the rules so that they will not even be able to object effectively.
Guys this is what you get when you compromise with the devil, you get funked!!...The party had a chance to take a PRINCIPLED STAND during the outright theft of a Presidental election in 2000 and decided to take a pass on it. Bad Idea!!! The Republicans simply perfected their art of election trickery.
Let me be the first to predict that a Republican will win in 2008, the voting fix is in and will not change unless we change the current system. The weakness of the current Democratic Party makes it almost impossible to change the current unreliable, easily manipulated voting systems.
So the bottom line is that the party is irrelevant, at least the people in Washington are....we need to formulate a REAL GRASS ROOTS effot to take this FUNKING COUNTRY BACK....if it means the death of the Democratic party then so be it.