While you're waiting nervously…

…for that 'positive Democratic agenda' everyone seems to think we need to emerge (although I always thought that that was what this is for), Digby went digging in the memory hole and came up with this encouraging note...

It pays to keep in mind that the 1994 Republicans didn't put out their "Contract On America" until six weeks before the election. They've pretended that it won them the election but that's a joke. (They did use bogus polling to give that impression.) What won that election was relentless criticism over the course of many months leading up to it. They built upon a reserve of discontent about a slow economic recovery by placing the blame for everything squarely on the "liberals" and the Democratic party. Their "positive" agenda was just gilding the lilly.

Actually, 'Get rid of the crooked bastards' sounds like a pretty positive agenda to me.