The New York Times has a big piece on how Democrats are feeling frustrated at their inability to score points against Republicans and use the current anti-GOP political atmosphere (as measured by polls) to win back the House and Senate in November. The article features lots of blame-gaming, especially of the Kennedy-Kerry liberal lions, and a lot of “we have to tell people what we are for” talk from moderates like Evan Bayh and Phil Bredesen of Tennessee. This, coming on the heels of the distressed word from Democratic pollster Celinda Lake that the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina hasn’t helped the Dems, is going to feel like a major blow to the solar plexus for those who have been certain for months that 2006 was, at long last, the year in which the American people would finally turn on the GOP. It still could be. But you can’t beat something with nothing.