Kant over at Dailykos makes a good point. A lot has been said about how the Democratic party has no national united platform for the the 2006 midterm elections. We do, it's a referendum election. It's a referendum on the policies of George Bush whose approval rating currently lie in the low thirties.
In recent history, no political party has had to face midterm elections with as poisonous a pill as Bush has become, and your local republican Congress critter is nothing but an extension of him. A vote for a republican is a vote for Bush, period. That makes it a canned hunt, and it's about time we shot down these dodos instead of each other, Dick Cheney style.
Update: Murtha just called the coming election a referendum election on Meet The Press.
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Murtha was strong on this issue, but as almost every dem you see on these shows lately, he seems unfocused and overly cautious in his general TP. I hate Newt, but when we watched the GOP from '93-about 2000, they were always focused and tight on TV. We need to get our electeds and candidates just as tight on a focused message. Referendum is certainly a part of it, but from there we must constantly bump and run to issues 1-3 and make tight arguements for better leadership. I'm actually hoping that our local Kilroy and Shamansky can be a part of that.
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