The biggest lie about Democrats

By: Thurgood Marshall Jr. and Paul Weinstein Jr.
Politico.com
December 4, 2011 09:40 PM EST

Of all the challenges Democrats will face in the 2012 election, few are insurmountable.

Unemployment is still too high. But an electorate convinced the nation is headed in the right direction — as last month’s employment numbers indicated — will reward the incumbent president. Washington may appear dysfunctional. But the congressional Republican leadership seems to be getting the greater share of the blame — as its dismal approval ratings show.

So Democratic prospects are not as bad as some might believe. That is, assuming they avoid what may be this campaign’s glaring progressive pitfall: allowing 2012 to turn on whether America has too much government or not enough.

Truth be told, a real debate about the size of government would be worth having now. As President Bill Clinton argues in his new book, “Back to Work,” the anti-government strategy that Republicans have made their bread and butter for the past 30 years has been proven, time and again, to be an utter disaster.

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