Stop Whining, Start Hammering

Several senior Democrats are supposedly lamenting missed opportunity in the upcoming Mid Term election. I hate these people. It's not their attitude that costs us elections, it's their mind numbing drum beat of wonkery that causes voters to tune us out.

It's only February, We don't need to roll out a 254 point plan to show America how we will turn the state of the nation around, but these guys want to march off that cliff yet again by spending ten months to muddle our message. From The New York Times:

"We're selling our party short; you've got to stand for a lot more than just blasting the other side," said Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee. "The country is wide open to hear some alternatives, but I don't think it's wide open to all these criticisms. I am sitting here and getting all my e-mail about the things we are supposed to say about the president's speech, but it's extremely light on ideas. It's like, 'We're for jobs and we're for America.' "

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Look, in 1994 when republicans took the House, they didn't roll out the Contract With America until six weeks before the election. (Thanks to Digby for reminding me of that a couple of weeks ago) Prior to that, they spent an entire year taking the hammer to Democrats, and that's what we need to do to them.

Right now we should be doing nothing but taking the meat mallet to them on Iraq, corruption, Katrina, Medicare, et al. Just because they aren't tender yet, doesn't mean they won't be come election day. It's a long slow burn, baby, and if we keep hitting them, they'll be nice and pulpy come November.