Foley e-mail exposes a larger pattern

Before I leave today on my day off from blogging, there's one more thing that I might add.  Very recently, I wrote about how the Democrats need to nationalize this election race by relating all of the GOP's failed policies into one simplified broad theme that defines the two parties.

If we framed the midterm elections to voters as open government honesty (Democrats) vs closed government secrets (Republicans) then we will be in a better position to resonate with swing voters in November.

This Mark Foley story could not fit any more perfectly into this argument.  Here we have a Republican leadership that knew about these perverted e-mails a full year before they were leaked to the press.  They kept the e-mails secret because they knew it would hurt their party.  This perfectly underscores the closed government mentality that the Democrats ought to contrast themselves with.

So again, if we make this about open government transparency vs closed government secrets, we will take both houses in November -- mark my words.  But first, the Democrats actually have to wake up and start following that strategy.  They have five weeks to do it.