Ernie Els Scoffs at Losers

With President Bush’s approval rating below thirty percent and none of the Republican presidential contenders stirring the public’s imagination, many Democrats have been worried that their historic role as losers and sad sacks might come to an abrupt end in 2008, a fear Mr. Dean attempted to quell today.

“Folks, let’s not forget, we’re Democrats,” Mr. Dean said. “If there’s a way to lose, we will find it.”

Carol Foyler, a longtime Democrat from Bethesda, Maryland who attended the summit, said that she had been worried that the Democrats might somehow pull out a victory in 2008, but added, “Just knowing that Howard Dean is in charge makes me feel much more confident about losing.”

Like this is any surprise.  The November elections were decided based on the fact that the media told the country that Americans did not like President Bush and that the Iraq war should end.  The people voted like sheep and we got the democrats.  Have the democrats done what the media said the American people want?  Of course not.  The democrats can't even not step on their own dicks.

In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats' domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol: Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage and student loan interest rate cuts all passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.

But now that initial progress has foundered as Washington policymakers have been consumed with the debate over the Iraq war. Not a single priority on the Democrats' agenda has been enacted, and some in the party are growing nervous that the "do nothing" tag they slapped on Republicans last year could come back to haunt them.

"We just plain suck," said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel who helped engineer his party's takeover of Congress as head of the democrat Congressional Election Campaign.  "People voted for change, but Iraq, the economy and Washington, D.C., [corruption] all tied for first place. We have done nothing about anything."