While many Democrats are content to let the right rip itself to shreds through statements ever more disconnected from reality, there are those -- on the right and elsewhere -- who have insisted the Democrats have to be more than critics.  If you're going to rail against what the president is doing, say the Republicans, then you have to present a plan of your own.

Most Democrats can be seen smiling and shaking their heads.  Why present a plan and give the Republicans a target for their own criticism, when the right is already doing such a fine job of soiling its own bed?

Listen closely, because you may never hear this again: I think the Republicans are right.