Democrats at a Loss

By Sean Higgins
The American Spectator

"Every public survey shows a country ready for a political upheaval in 2006."

So begins the latest memo from Democracy Corps, the heavyweight political strategy group run by Democratic bigwigs James Carville, Stanley Greenberg, and Robert Shrum. It's a revealing glimpse into the thinking of party's top strategists -- though not always in the way they intended.

The basic thrust of it is that the Republicans are tanking, being dragged down President Bush's slumping polls, Iraq, the Hurricane Katrina response and other bad news. But the Democrats thus far haven't been able to capitalize on it.