the week in review...

David Sirota again:

What [Dem strategists] seem unable - or unwilling - to realize is that the public has believed Democrats are weak not because some in the party have opposed the war, but because many in the party refuse to wield the power the public entrusts them with on all sorts of issues.

Brevity being the soul of wit [and, in this case, exactitude], this pretty much says it for me.