Democrats from Obama on down are blaming their electoral rout on failure to explain their agenda, but maybe we have heard too much of their agenda. A Washington Post column by liberal commentator Eugene Robinson asks why Democrats are not standing up “for what they say they believe:” What I'm hearing is frustration, and it's getting louder. I'm hearing the view that the Obama administration, which has done much good, can do better - by speaking clearly, standing its ground - and, when pushed by bullies, shoving back.  Robinson notes the ‘enthusiasm gap’ among the party’s base of minorities, women and young people. But who could be enthusiastic about a party that is bankrupting the country and crippling our industry, undermining our freedom and diminishing our standing? Young people in particular are ill-served by the Obama spending tsunami and job-destroying agenda.  Yet they are led down the garden path of statism by ‘hip’...(Read Full Post)