Democrat Woes...

Well, weÂ’ve got a lot of stuff on the Democrats today. (And see UPDATE below)

First up, Donald Lambro in the Washington Times reports on the new round of in-fighting between the folks who brought you Bill Clinton, the Democrat Leadership Council (DLC) and the Moonbat.org-controlled Leftist kooks. Once again, the DLC is warning its membership that the party needs to appeal to voters outside their base if they ever expect to win. And once again, the criticism fell on deaf ears:

"I can't tell the difference between the positions the DLC puts forward and Republican policy," said Jack Blum, counsel for the liberal Americans for Democratic Action.

Hokay, guys. Whatever. Keep burying your head in your copy of Das Kapital, weÂ’ll keep winning.

Also, once again showing their tin ear for politics, Democrats refused to make even so much as an acknowledgement of the Pope in their weekly radio address.

"We had a plan in place for a national radio address that would have highlighted the Pope's stand on social justice and equality for all," says a Democratic National Committee staffer. "They wouldn't do it. They said it would look like pandering, that it wasn't helpful to their agendaÂ…

"This is another example of where we just don't get it," says a Democratic pollster in New York. "We knew the Pope was dying. We knew we had an opportunity, and we just ignore it and go ahead and act like the Democrats all those Red Staters think we are. We attack the Republicans for trying to save the Schiavo woman, and we ignore the Pope's passing. Somehow I know this is just going to come back and bite us in the ass."

Reminds me of this little exchange from the movie Jaws:

Mayor Vaughn: “I don't think either of you are familiar with our problems.”
Hooper: “I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you on the ass.”

And as if the Dems don’t have enough problems, John Fund writes this morning about a new opportunity for the GOP based on some freshly released data about Election 2004: “Bush Democrats”?:

"Only five Republican House members currently sit in districts where Mr. Bush won less than 47% of the presidential vote last year: two in Connecticut, two in Iowa and one in Delaware. But 31 House Democrats represent districts where John Kerry won less than 47%. That means Republicans have many more opportunities to pick up seats in favorable political terrain as Democratic members leave the House. No one expects Democrats to hold the seat of Ike Skelton of Missouri when he leaves office; President Bush won 64% of his district's votes. Ditto for the district of Gene Taylor of Mississippi, where Mr. Bush won 68%."

ThereÂ’s a LOT more data so check out the whole column here.

UPDATE 11:30am

Ron Brownstein frets in the LA Times over the fact that - in today's political environment - the GOP holds all the cards:

"The most immediate political danger is that Republicans can portray Democrats as obstructionists, a dangerous label in the "red" Bush states. The larger problem is that the Democrats' inability to sustain attention on their ideas encourages a public sense that they have none. In the latest poll from Democracy Corps, a project of leading Democratic consultants, Republicans held a crushing 30-percentage-point advantage when voters were asked which party knows what it stands for."

Democrats don't seem to know what they stand for, either.

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