So it's another Monday, which means another intellectually stimulating column from the Campus Conservative. The column can be found here.

When she refers to Senator Schumer's quote that "[Democrats have] gotten much better at blocking some of the bad things the Republicans would do, but we know you can't be a party of long-term majorities unless you put forward the things you would do," she takes is as Schumer setting the plan to use whining behavior to win Congressional seats. First of all, complaining that the current administration has not done an appropriate job is hardly whining. I'll agree that the Democratic Party is hardly unified at the moment but attacking the conservative leaders of our country seems like a completely reasonable campaign tool. If I was a leader in the Democratic party, the first thing I would look to at the moment for ammunition would be the unsatisfactory job the Republican majority has done in improving our country in economics, defense, as well as in other departments.

When she tries to use polls as evidence for the struggle of Democrats in Congress, she pulls numbers off of multiple polls, which cannot be compared to one another. It's ridiculous for her to compare 52% approval of the party from a Gallup poll to 32% approval of the representatives from a Pew poll. Also, the 52% approval of the Democratic Party is the more important number as one representative's time in Congress is transient compared to the long lasting approval of the Democratic Party.

Her account of the Democrats and their lack of a strong platform are completely correct and this seems to be the biggest problem with the Democratic Party right now; there doesn't seem to be a united party behind one set of goals for the country. However, her point that "[she doesn't] think the American public is going to find it convincing when Democrats run on that platform [of getting rid of Bush] in 2006," is not correct. A lot of Americans believe that the first and nearest step in improving the status of the US is to take back the majority is the House and Senate. This is the first move in getting a Democrat back in office in 2008. Up until 2 months ago this "platform" would not have made much noise for the Democrats but with the past two months of negligence piled on years of inadequacy, many Americans are riled enough to go blue based solely on the anti-conservative view.

The most amusing point in the column comes in the last paragraph when she makes the claim that Democrats shouldn't see success "just because a small majority of voters are unhappy with Republicans at the moment." First of all, there's no such thing as a small majority, it's a complete oxymoron; a majority is a majority, it means more than half of the population, is "unhappy" with the Republican party. Also, "unhappy" isn't exactly the right word to get the point across; a better choice may have been "outraged," "infuriated," or "irate." The majority of people aren't slightly upset with the current administration, for the most part we think it is pathetic and whatever has to be done to take Congress and the White House back is doable.