WASHINGTON -- Senior Democrats are increasingly confident that they have blocked Republicans plans for historic breakthroughs in legislation under GOP control of the White House and Congress, declaring that the Democratic strategy of unified opposition to major items on the leadership agenda has succeeded in turning Republicans against themselves.
Democratic leaders say the focus on opposition, rather than on their own legislative proposals, has allowed them to hold up President Bush's plans to remake Social Security. They are honing a message that highlights what they portray as Republican abuses of power, and say their new level of party discipline is forcing Republicans to wrestle with their own divisions over judicial confirmations, foreign affairs, and taxing and spending.
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Now I ask you -- is this something to be proud of? I think not. Maybe it makes political sense -- the Democrats are in such a state that their only realistic hope of gaining ground is to divide the Republicans -- but as a matter of governance, it's pathetic, and if the public decides that the Democrats are to be held to account for their obstructionism, then they will be in real trouble.
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