Hey lefty whiners...

Look here, the Democrats are doing something!

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Older voters, a critical component of Republican Congressional victories for more than a decade, could end up being a major vulnerability for the party in this year's midterm elections, according to strategists in both parties. Paradoxically, one reason is the new Medicare drug benefit, which was intended to cement their loyalty.

During next week's Congressional recess, Democrats are set to begin a major new campaign to highlight what Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, describes as "this disastrous Republican Medicare prescription drug plan."

Democratic incumbents and challengers plan nearly 100 public forums around the country, armed with briefing books and talking points on a law that, party leaders assert, "was written by and for big drug companies and H.M.O.'s, not American families."

Recognizing the widespread criticism of the new drug program, Republican senators met in a closed session with administration officials this week to discuss the rocky rollout of the plan and prepare for questions back home.

It's one of the oddities of the blogosphere that issues like this - the total failure of the Republican Prescription Drug Plan - go nearly unmentioned on lefty blogs. This is possibly the biggest issue in 2006. Older voters make up a far larger percentage of the vote in midterm elections than in presidential ones and are therefore crucial. This whole drug plan was conceived to cement their loyalty heading into this election, afterall the plan just got underway last January.

Maybe it's that most bloggers and blog readers are younger and don't have a Medicare drug benefit to concern themselves with. At least Democratic party leaders are on the ball even while the blogosphere remains silent.