"6). The democrats have only themselves to blame for losing ground in the senate. Don't points 1-4 seem like excellent criticisms of the republican leadership? Aren't they typical democrat stomping grounds? Why did the democrats just sit back and agree with Bush about way too many things? Where was the dissent? The criticism?"
Actually, they sound like whiny points made by someone who can't conceive of what they'd do if they actually had power. And therein lies part of the problem: it's very easy to criticize, but there hasn't been a positive proposal about what the alternative is. And, interestingly, this view requires believing that no Democrat of good conscience could agree with Bush on anything. But as Todd Gitlin, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Walzer et al have proven, it is indeed possible to have a great deal of agreement-- we can agree on ends but not on means. This distinction seems to be totally lost on people commenting on the Left.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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