Kneejerking and lockstepping are mutually exclusive, Bruce--you can't march in a lockstep if your knees are jerking--You have been listening to the empty rhetoric the right for so long that you actually think that it means something-it doesn't--

The idea that the Democrats are just hurting themselves by being angry at all things Bush is the last desperate ditch effort of a failed administration to silence it's critics. It is a bit like telling a lynch mob that they are only hurting themselves.

Cohen's contention is wrong for a lot of other reasons--for instance, if only 38% of the populace identify themselves as Democrats( and an even smaller number of those as liberals) the 70% disapproval can't very well be "partisan politics", can it? No--the anger isn't coming from Liberal spin doctors--the anger is coming from those who bought the program--

Judging by the all of the anti-Hilary talk, she is the one that the right fear most--and they should fear her, because she can keep the 70% together--

As to Cohen, he's a Washington journalist--this essay was a bone thrown to the Rove team--The press do that, in exchange for access--