WASHINGTON?Unsettled by the party?s dismal performance in the Virginia governor?s race, Democratic leadership vowed Wednesday to work twice as hard in the coming months to muddle their agenda. ?Last night was a wake-up call that we need to refocus our efforts on alienating the American voter with vague goals and?
It seems that when the Republicans gain power with 50.1% of the vote, they’ve got some smoke-filled back room where the calculate exactly how much of their agenda they can ram through, and then they do it. But the Democrats seem to be unable to do that, or perhaps it’s like what was said of the conservative wing of the Republican Party in the 1960s, too large a faction of the Democrats “would rather be right than win”.