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DATE : Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:00:00 +0500
Entered in Database : 2006-06-27 14:00:00
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Everything in this office comes with a Red Sox analogy, and today we're looking at the Democrats the way Red Sox nation looks at the All-Star break. Boston may be in first place. They may be five games up in first place. They may look great, they may be hitting well and there may be five good Yankees on injured reserve and yet we still can't shake the feeling -- the conviction borne of experience -- that somehow, some way, before the end of September, the Sox will find a way to screw it all up. Things seem to be going well for the Democrats, or, rather, they're going poorly for the Republicans, but as we know that in no way guarantees that the Democrats will re-take the House, the Senate or, really, anything this fall. Rove is going on the offensive about the war, but what do Democrats have in response? Is there a message that we're missing? Is it a tired media cliche that the Democrats have no message? If so, how come we don't know about the Democrats' new message? What are the Democrats running on this fall, and how are they not going to miss this grounder?

Sidney Blumenthal

Former senior adviser to President Clinton Washington bureau chief, Salon.com

Andrei Cherny

Co-Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas Former Speech Writer to Vice President Al Gore Author, The Next Deal

Michael Huttner

Executive Director, ProgressNow.org

Joel Wright

Founder, Wright Consulting Services

Extra Credit Reading: Kenneth Baer and Andre Cherny, A Message to our Readers, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #1, Summer 2006. Marshall Wittmann, Ideas and Attitudes, Bull Moose Blog, June 22, 2006. Josh Marshall, I'm a bit confused..., Talking Points Memo, June 22, 2006. Also TPM Reader PT, Talking Points Memo, June 25, 2006 Jonathon Chait, Bad Idea: Why big ideas won't save liberalism, The New Republic, June 26, 2006.

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