Republican orthodoxy* is a great way to get elected when in the minority. There's always plenty of government waste, inefficiency, and corruption to campaign against, to paint government as a drain on the taxpayer's wallet. The problem is, governing like a Republican just exacerbates those problems. If Republicans don't care about government, they have even less incentive to make sure that the money is well spent and that government programs work. So they become even more inefficient, more wasteful, and more corrupt. Heck, it's almost a moral imperative that they screw up. The past two decades have borne that out. (And what better examples than appointing a horse lawyer to run FEMA, or Bush's incompetent and unqualified appointments to head the World Bank?)

*I.e. "Government isn't the solution, it's the problem.", for starters.

This paragraph contains the why, the how, and the what for every assault on the Rethugs, and their way of thinking and acting, which the Dems will need to make to win, and win big.  After all, no matter how low the tax rates go, Everyone will have to send some money to Sam, and Everyone therefore has a vested interest in making sure the money they send is spent by people whose raison d'etre is not incompetence, stupidity and corruption, and whose belief system does not accept those behaviors as the sine qua non of government service (or employment).  

Here's your organizing principle, people.  This paragraph gives the spine around which every argument you can make can be wrapped, and to which it can be anchored.

Let's see how quickly the pseudo-Dem members of the leadership can fritter this gift away....