The trouble with this whole hypothesis is that it originates in the premise that the country has spoken and the progressives got whipped. The assumption is that is a repudiation of the progressive agenda. I would suggest that you folks are deluding yourselves, and quite frankly that pleases me. You are guilty of believing your own press, the first sign of a fall.

While I will agree that on certain issues, we alienated the middle, you would consider if you were wise is that this was a race too close to call right up to the end. You would consider that were it not fot the wedge issues, more folks agreed with the progressive agenda of environmental responsibility, a better foreign policy approach, ending the dependence on foreign oil, and a whole host of domestic items, including health care and prescription drugs. To be sure, we on the left must temper the more radically inclined among our ranks, while heeding the real issues they raise.

Go on with the gloating. As a veteran of the political scene, I love it when the opposition believes they have a mandate, and overestimates the political capital they really have.

Mick