... and I think it's indicative of a major weakness Democrats have.

#3 Is listed as george bush. But when you go on to read the gloss, you don't see a single thing he said in it.

What you DO see is what VOTERS said - and boy was it craptacular!

This is the weakness that I think is endemic in Democrats: they absolutely REFUSE to blame those who are in fact most to blame: the goddamn voters. The electorate is NOT a passive battered wife in all of this. They ACTIVELY sought republican rule - for a variety of reasons. And they were WRONG to do so. This needs to be acknlowledged, and the republican electorate needs to admit their error. But this will NEVER happen unless WE require it of them. As long as we Democrats continue to blame everyone BUT the voters, they will have no reason to come clean - why should they, when we always blame someone else?

There are FOUR political loci of power in this country, though the Constitution only mentions three by name. Just like the others, the electorate has powers, and more relevantly here, RESPONSIBILITIES. Those responsibilities have not been lived up to. Everytime a citizen doesn't vote, or votes for a republican, that voter is shirking his or her responsibilities. This needs to be brought out into the open and dealt with, not shoved behind the cover of "Oh those evil politicians".

In the end, the voters DO have the final say. (Diebold you say? Who passed all the laws helping Diebold get big? Who voted for those who passsed the laws? Get it?). Certainly there are a lot of other things making the final mixture. The responsibility - or lack thereof - of the electorate is one of the biggest, and commonly goes unremarked upon, just as in the Top 10 #3.