Democrats won in 08 becauise of populist anger. The party is slipping because they ignored it. [View All]

That in a nutshell is what I believe is happening.

People voted for change. Instead they get more of the status quo.

They voted for "yes we can." Instead they get "We can't do this because...."

They voted to put the fatcats in their place. Instead they see the fatcats invited into the inner circle.

The Democrats would be doing a lot better if they had behaved like the party that channeled populist anger into real progressive/liberal reform. Instead the party leadership has been the party of the "squishy status quo" and left it to the conservatives the GOP to claim the mantle of populist change.

Obama and the rest of the Democratic leadership shopiold have been taking cues from people like Harkin, Brown, Weiner and other clearly liberal and progressive legislators, instead of pandering to the Baucuses and Bayhs and trying to foist Clinton 2 on us.