Amen.
From Tapped:
DEMS HAVE THE STRONGER HAND, AND THEY NEED TO SAY SO. Several bloggers over the weekend rightly flagged Jamison Foser's spot-on riff on the fact that the media just can't stop saying that no matter what political misfortunes befall Bush, they're all somehow beneficial to Republicans looking towards 2006. The question now is: What can liberals and Dems do to change that?
It seems obvious that there are two reasons commentators continue to reflexively do this, in addition to whatever institutional biases are out there. The first is that many reporters and commentators -- often deeply uncertain about their abilities and their more or less outsider status -- worship winners and despise losers. Republicans won in 2000, 2002 and 2004. And so, this thinking goes, if GOPers say they've got a lock on 2006, shouldn't they be believed? In a rational world the Social Security debacle, the Dubai disaster and other setbacks would already have seriously eroded that dynamic, but they're only just beginning to, unfortunately. The second reason is that Republicans continually say they've got the winning hand, and more important, they often say it convincingly. Dems, on the other hand, act like they're going to lose -- or at least like they think they are. They're like the poker player who tries to bluff but fails because his sweating or shaking gives him away.
