A teasing Hillpiece tends to confirm my suspicions: the much-trumpeted - check: make that uncertainly trumpeted - domestic agenda for the 06 campaign, New Direction for America has been something of a damp squib.

The piece quotes some Dem reps as being a tad clueless on the doc.

The journo doesn't pretend she's interviewed a scientifically valid sample: clearly she hasn't.

But there are only a couple of hundred Dem reps - which, compared to the couple of hundred million VEP, is not a big ask, dissemination-wise.

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The House of Representatives was busy yesterday engaging in vicious class warfare against working families.

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[Title amended by replacement of exclamation marks by question mark! The learning experience continues...]

Not that many folks in the lefty sphere have seemed to take much notice.

But New Direction, the drop-like-a-stone latest instalment in the Dem agenda for 06, came out last week - and one of its proposals was a hike in the Federal minimum wage.

(Which is so cringemakingly miserly that even a fair few red states have laws imposing a higher level.)

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I confess this one has me beat.

Yesterday, Pelosi and a bunch of other Dem honchos launched the latest in a planned series of documents setting out the Congressional Dems' policy agenda for the 110th Congress: New Direction, dealing with issues falling under the heading of domestic policy.

I didn't like it. But that's hardly going to keep the Signora awake nights.

The thing that's puzzling me, though, is why the document has got so little publicity among lefty commentators and bloggers.

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When Pelosi and friends launched Real Security - supposedly a persuasive Democratic agenda for national security policy - I was unimpressed as to both substance and presentation.

Now it's the turn of domestic policy, which has got the treatment in New Direction, a document (PDF) that the Signora launched in a presser today.

Once again, it's dismal stuff - once again, in both substance and presentation.

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