My message is better

When John Kerry lost the White House last year, many people were shouting about the poor shape of the Democratic message machine. So it was with great pleasure that I read this from The Hill:

Another GOP aide said: "There’s a general sense in the rank and file that we are a little in the hole and that Democrats have been more aggressive on messaging, that we’ve kind of gone dark. Democrats have gotten a head start and defined the issue ahead of us."

The article discuss Harry Reid's new war room and it's ability to shape public debate on the "nuclear option," so far putting Republicans on the defensive for the first time since... well, I don't know how long.

The GOP had really started to believe what they had to shovel, and it's now come back to bite them. They thought America really wanted their hard core conservative agenda and that Democrats would cower in the corner rather than risk further election loss. Instead Democrats came out fighting, no longer concerned about how small their opposition was, but concerned about being an opposition at all. They started actually standing up for Democratic principles. And now, 63% of Americans want to see Democrats oppose the right (PDF) and what they have to offer.

Rather than the majority control the debate, the Democrats have really taken it to their "rivals" and put them in a real state of disarray, not just on the filibuster issue, but Social Security and Tom DeLay as well. Rather than hearing about Democrats worried about political fallout, the Republicans are starting to look skyward to see what's falling all around them.

Cheers to Harry Reid.