That being said, it's not ENTIRELY accurate.

Although I agree completely that as a party, the Democrats' lack of a vision or goal has been the dead albatross around their neck since 1994, to say that our current situation is a result of opposition politics is, well, not a holistic view of the situation.

For seven years come this September, the cornerstone of our foreign policy has been the war on terror. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the majority of funding of these rogue terrorist organizations comes from oil rich countries and families. Removing this source of income from the world goes a hell of a long way to removing the teeth from the majority of international terror organizations. Even more so than various invasions and military actions. If in October of 2001 G.W. would have stood on the rubble of Ground Zero and said, "Hey, there's a better way of doing this," who wouldn't have agreed? If by the end of 2001 someone in that administration could have pasted together some kind of plan, including drilling in ANWAR and a massive federal commitment for domestic production of non-petroleum fuels and domestic petroleum fuels, what Congress could have stopped it? At the time the Administration had a 90%+ approval rating. And following Ryan's comments about futures, oil would be twenty bucks a barrel right now.

This is a lot of spilled milk crying, I understand. Opposition politics has been the 800 pound gorilla at the DNC for a better part of a decade, I get that too. But even more than a Democratic legislature, it's our current Administration that we can thank for this current mess. A cohesive plan, (and seriously. How hard is it? We've shit out like fifty different comprehensive plans, any of which could have been submitted to any House or Senate committee for debate at any time from 2002 to today, and who the hell are we?) implemented in 2002 about the same time as hostilities in Afghanistan, would have had a better, more productive effect on some rag head suicide bomber than any Democrat initiative starting sometime post 2006.