Pundits were even more unsparing. Michael Kinsley wrote in The Washington Post, “The hideous complexity of President Bush’s prescription drug program has reduced elderly Americans—and their children—to tears of bewildered frustration.” And Paul Krugman wrote in The Times, “We are ruled by bunglers. Every major venture by the Bush administration, from the occupation of Iraq to the Medicare drug program, has turned into an epic saga of incompetence.”

And now, how many voters remember the Medicare Part D rollout?

It’s the nature of the news industry to focus on what’s gone wrong as opposed to, say, what’s working or what’s moving in the direction of progress. It was true in 2006. It’s true today. It will likely be true in the future.

That’s not, however, how history gets written—or how people think over the long haul.

Democrats know this and are counting on the media’s narrative being tossed.