The Democrats like to think they are the all inclusive party; they who stand up for the small guy; they who give a voice to those who are otherwise unheard.

RIGHTTT.

Here’s a few examples of the political dynamics they are dealing with. We should not fear them being in control for long.

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and John Edwards on Saturday joined three other Democratic presidential contenders planning to skip states that break party rules by holding early primaries. Their pledge leaves front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton alone in planning to compete in Florida and Michigan.

Obama’s and Edwards’ pledge came a day after Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware said they would not campaign in such states.

“As I have campaigned across America over the last six months, it’s become clear that Governor Dean and the Democratic National Committee have put together a presidential nomination process that’s in the best interests of our party and our nation,” Obama, the Illinois senator, said in a written statement.

The five have signed onto a pledge circulated by Democratic leaders of the four states that have party approval to hold early contests — Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The pledge says they will not compete in any other states that vote before Feb. 5, as Florida plans to do and Michigan is poised to do.

“Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina need to be first because in these states ideas count, not just money,” Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, said in a written statement. “This tried-and-true nominating system is the only way for voters to judge the field based on the quality of the candidate, not the depth of their war chest.”

They’re bickering over which states are important.

The chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party, Karen Thurman, has criticized the pledge, calling it “a pact to ignore tens of millions of diverse Americans by a selfish, four-state alliance of party insiders.”

Selfish four state alliance? Oh puleeeeeze.
How inclusive they really are. The four states, including NH, have little voice in anything. What’s the problem with this? These states don’t offer up the far left’s idea of diversity? GET OVER IT.

The Democrats have no PLAN. No new ideas. Nothing refreshing or different.

With the possible exception of the Republicans, is there a major political party more stupefyingly brain-dead than the Democrats? That’s the ultimate takeaway from “The Argument,” Matt Bai’s sharply written, exhaustively reported and thoroughly depressing account of “billionaires, bloggers, and the battle to remake Democratic politics” along unabashedly “progressive” (read: New Deal and Great Society) lines. Well-financed and influential groups ranging from the Democracy Alliance to the New Democrat Network to MoveOn.org may be taking over the Democratic Party, he says, but they are not doing the heavy thinking that will fundamentally transform politics — unlike the free-market, small-government groups formed in the wake of Barry Goldwater’s historic loss in the 1964 presidential race.

Groups like MoveOn and blogs such as Daily Kos do not define the Democrats. But they have undo influence upon the candidates.

The problem is, they cannot agree on so many things. Being un-unified is the biggest obstacle they have.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Divided by their liberal and moderate wings, congressional Democrats return from a monthlong recess without consensus on how to tackle several pressing issues, including Iraq and warrantless wiretaps.

Democrats control both chambers but lack the numbers to override President Bush’s vetoes of bids to mandate troop withdrawals from Iraq. They also have failed to significantly rewrite the administration’s electronic surveillance programs.

That leaves party leaders squeezed between two camps when the House and Senate reconvene Tuesday.

Anti-war lawmakers say any Iraq-related legislation that falls short of triggering troop withdrawals is pointless and gives voters the impression there is no sharp division between the two parties.

More moderate Democrats want to pursue proposals to require the administration to rest troops more often and draw up redeployment plans, even if such efforts strike some as more symbolic than substantive.

If they could just stick up for the typical American Democrat and not the far left version, these issues wouldn’t be there. Kos, Soros, Sheehan, Sean Penn? Who do they speak for? These few individuals should not be re-shaping a political party. The PEOPLE should be doing this. When candidates figure this out, politics might change.

Until then, it’s the same old.