Democrats: Get your asses in gear.

Could be that Democrats are resting on their laurels. They won big in 2008. And now they are starting to lose big. In large part because they are lazy Democrats. They don't get out and sell their programs. Such as meaningful health care reform. The Democrats let the rival Republicans define the issue. That's a pity. Little wonder that public polling went from relatively strong support for universal health care, to something less than a majority. Again, a pity. And then Democrats assumed that they'd handily win the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy. The Democratic candidate Martha Coakley even went on a Caribean vacation during a critical phase of the election campaign. She dropped in two weeks from a 20-point advantage in public polling, to what now appears to be an election loss to a conservative Republican. In liberal Massachusetts, of all places. Indeed, another pity. And there's far worse failures likely to come for Democrats. Unless they wake up and get their asses in gear. --Jim Broede