Okay, the Senators better get with the program and act like the obstructionists we needed them to be in the first half of this Presidential term. We saw what Bush did with the contested 2000 election: don't expect a seeker of common ground now. Bush doesn't get a grace period. We need Kerry, Kennedy, and whoever is left to spend two years grinding Washington to a halt, until we can get help on the way.
We offered the Republicans a pleasant bow-out gracefully repeat of 1992, and they turned us down. Instead, they get 1972. A bad war. Administration scandals getting ready cause a head or two to roll.
Daschle is gone, and it is good. This isn't time for loyal opposition. I smell dirty tricks, and I am fired up. We need a plan, a "Contract for the Children", in 2006.
A framework that can lead to a sweeping take back, akin to 1994's Contract "on" America.
Not just a platform, but a framework for why all of our policies are pro-children/pro-families. It is true that the Republican's talk about family values while we do the better job in valuing families. We need to explain why our policies are the policies that value families.
We can do this. It isn't just the youth voter (Is that an oxymoron in retrospect?). In 2004 we should have had 60% of married women. Why we didn't is another question, but it is time to retake that consituency by articulating the progressive values that all of us believe in so strongly!