The big brain behind the no-plan strategy is...

The truth is that Democrats haven’t been interested in leading, or making “hard choices” for years. In 2009 and 2010, they were more interested in shoving massive spending bills down the American people’s throats. In 2011, they’ve shifted their focus to demonizing, demagoguing, and defeating the proactive solutions offered by Republicans, hoping that they’ll scare enough people into restoring them to full power, so they can revive their left-wing social engineering projects. Astoundingly, despite all this, Democrats still crown themselves the non-ideological adults in the room, and the media largely plays along. Chuck Schumer may be a sharp political tactician and a messaging guru, but the course he’s charted reeks of policy loserdom and cowardice. The American people should reward his party accordingly.