'I Need You to be Excited, as Excited as the Tea Party People Are'

These desperate Democrats need to get their message straight. In one breath tea partiers are the greatest threat to democracy since Timothy McVeigh. In the next we have endangered Democrat urging their sycophants and lackeys being told to emulate them. Nothing like being consistent.

Democrats facing a tough election year dared Republicans on Saturday to challenge them on issues from Wall Street regulations to health care reform, testing what they hope will be a winning message with most voters in the fall.

Democrats at the state party's annual convention had a brash message at a time when polls show President Barack Obama's popularity slipping and party candidates in tight races across the country: Bring it on.

"Democrats are for protecting the peoples' interest; Republicans are protecting the special interests. Democrats are protecting consumers and small businesses on Main Street; Republicans are protecting big banks on Wall Street," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told more than 1,000 cheering delegates inside the Los Angeles Convention Center.

"That is our fight," Pelosi said.

With her re-election in doubt, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., urged Democrats to unite behind her candidacy with the excitement witnessed at tea party rallies around the nation.

"We passed health care reform and we should be proud of it, proud of it," Boxer told supporters waving yellow "Boxer 2010" signs. "I need you to be excited, as excited as the tea party people are. Will you help me?"

So when her supporters become as "excited as the tea party people are" should we expect a negative avalanche of stories telling us how white they are? How racist they are? How Klan-ish they are? How their very existence promotes "hate" and threatens the very fabric of our nation? Will Barack Obama laugh at them and tell them they should be thankful for paying more taxes?