What is a Democrat to do?

With the Brown win in MA. Democrats are reeling. Their agenda is in danger of falling off a cliff due to the 41 seat minority the Republicans hold in the US Senate. I would like to suggest the following points for consideration:

We need to define our agenda before the Republicans define it for us. The health care bill was demonized without pushing back.

We need to stick to our principles and avoid compromising them for the elusive 60th vote.

We need to write letters to our local newspapers letting people know about how our agenda is one that can positively affect our lives

We need to continue to fight for the middle class and the poor. We can not let the Republicans charge us with "class warfare". They have been practicing their own brand of class warfare for along time, only it is against the middle class and the poor.

We need to fight back against republican framing. How many amongst us support the estate tax but not the death tax when it is the same thing.

We need to stay involved at the local level.

We need to get out and vote. Scott Brown won the Senate race for many reasons. One of them was turnout. The towns turned out in greater percentages than the cities. If the cities turns out with the same percentage Coakley may have won.

We need to contest every race and not take any for granted. This is another reason for Coakley's loss. At a critical time Coakley was on vacation while Brown was driving from town to town defining the Coakley campaign in negative terms.

Above all we need to fight for what we believe to be right. We took a passive approach to health care and we are worse off for it.

November will be painful for Democrats but if we stand up and fight for our core values it will not be the disaster predicted.