Indeed, it is very grim.
And while the Senate Leader is technically Harry Reid, the real leaders of the Democratic party at the moment are Senators Obama and Clinton. They can get press (if not always fair and accurate press) any time they want. They have a prominent platform and a large megaphone which they could use not simply to inspire voters but to browbeat their colleagues, plot a course of action, enlist their supporters into helping push through a legislative agenda, etc.
They could, you know, lead instead of campaign. The former might even help the latter.
That's assuming they want to.
I'm not all that much into the predictions game, but we're only a couple of month away from the due date for my prediction last Nov. 29 that two Friedmans from then we'd still have 120,000+ troops in Iraq. That will undoubtedly come true, and it will almost certainly be true on Nov. 29, 2008.
As for amateurs not getting what was going on, don't sell yourself short Kevin, you knew what was going on all along as did the rest of us. The fact that our elected leaders have chosen to play along is perhaps something we should have predicted, though I don't know what we could have done about it.
