Cartoon: Press conference: "We Tortured Some Folks" - byTom Tomorrow

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14. and Democrats wonder why they still lose to Republicans

when you apologize for and continue the worst of opponents policies, it's no wonder voters can be apathetic or easily misled.

Incremental change is tough for the casual observer to detect, and when you enact your opponents policy ideas, the public doesn't notice the irony of the opponents not helping or applauding.

They only see whether the policy works or its flaws in practice, and if the opponents who crafted the policy in the first place criticize it, the public suspects the critics might be right.

Democrats massively screwed the pooch by not calling things as they really were and acting accordingly after winning the back Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008.