Years of being comfortable running defense appear to have withered the "Democratic Machine", so much that they are running scared on a far range of issues in which the GOP mouthpiece, including 'hate radio', has been successful moving opinion.
Latest casualty, "Dream".
On the other hand, they've done far, far more than the do-nothing 109th Congress, that's for sure.
Can you win in the trenches and lose the war? I dunno.