That's my impression, at least, from searching Google News - I don't have Nexis - for references to the latest version of the Dem platform/agenda for the 06 campaign.

(Which I discussed yesterday.)

Now, NDFA seems to have been mailed or biked round to the gentlemen of the press, because (Milbank says) Pelosi at her usual weekly presser addressed the assembled hacks thusly:

"I hope you all received 'A New Direction for America,' " she said, standing at a lectern that bore the same slogan. She called the manifesto "a compilation of many of the initiatives taken by our House Democratic Caucus that encompasses our new direction for all Americans."

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Dana Milbank devotes one of his funnies to it today.

But, for anyone hoping for a purposeful, organized and astutely directed Democratic 110th House, there really is nothing to laugh about in the latest version of A New Direction for America - now expanded into a 30 page brochure (PDF).

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I wish Democratic Congressional leadership would stop the horrible messaging already.  First it was 'Together America can do better'.  Then it was culture of corruption.  Then it was REAL Security or something like that.  Now it's '06 in 06', which sounds like a stupid car commercial from the 1950s.  Do you also get six dollars off your next purchase?

The Busby poll is getting closer to release, and there's lots of interesting data there.  Some of it suggests that these kinds of policy-heavy messages just don't work because people don't believe that Democratic candidates can do what they say they will do.  Just look at DSCC poster-boy Harold Ford Jr, who's running a perfect campaign according to Chuck Schumer.  He's discussing the port deal, gas prices, and his opponents are in a brutal primary.  And Ford is absolutely stuck at 41 in the polls.

Here's a new, simple idea for a slogan.  It's not perfect.  It's not even very good.  But it's simple, and powerful.

Republicans support George Bush.  Losers.

Update: I like this one, from the comments: "If you put us Dems in control of Congress, we'll do everything in our power to keep Bush from messing up the country any more than he already has."

It's not a bumper sticker. But you get the idea.

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When it comes to flipping control of Congress in November, the polls say yes, yes, yes! and more or less everything the Dem leadership does screams no, no, no!

As witness the latest (final?) version of the (supposed) equivalent to the 1994 GOP Contract with America: New Direction for America (link to PDF at bottom of page).

Or, as it's now more snappily known, Six for '06.

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