The second of Obama's mistakes that Rosenberg debunks with graphical data is that 'overly combative Democrats and overly combative Republicans have caused too much acrimony and this lack of civility has produced a stalemate.'

The problem - the reason nothing works in Washington - is Republicans.

They block all progress. Not enough people state that fact clearly enough. To accomplish a wave, this is the one thing that the Democratic nominee for President must say a thousand times a week. Obama won't say it. No wave.

The problem is not that Democrats are too combative, just like Republicans. There is nothing the Democrats have done that is remotely close to the GOP impeachment of Clinton. To the contrary, the Democratic leadership has refused to even consider impeachment for a list of literally dozens of high crimes and misdemeanors.

The notion that Democrats are anything remotely like Republicans in the way of partisan poisonousness is as ludicrous as the notion of George Bush as "a uniter, not a divider." It's the perfect example of Hitler's "big lie" in a modern American context. It's a lie so enormous, one almost starts to stutter in response. There's so much evidence to the contrary, one hardly knows where to begin.

Years ago I wrote that 2008 has the potential to be a major realigning election for Democrats where we solidify another 36 years or so of Democratic dominance.

After years of epic failure at the hands of a conservative movement President and a conservative Congress, a progressive era is not just possible, but likely--unless the Democrats screw it up.

Moreover, he will allow movement conservatives to settle the GOP into the role where they are much more comfortable exercising power, that of unflinching opposition. Using media manipulation techniques they've mastered, they will, or nearly will impeach the next Democratic President and retake the White House in 2012...

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