On the ABC and CNN Sunday talk shows, yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi   predicted that if the Democrats return to their tradition emphasis on jobs and on serving working and middle class families, the Democratic party  will retain their majority in the fall 2010 elections. She said the Democrats are "bracing" for a tough and "difficult election." But the party is "ready."

She reminded the TV audience that the Democrats "inherited a terrible mess from the Bush administration and (from) their failed economic policies." And that the Democrats are working to improve the economy.

Ms. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders need not only to place the emphasis on jobs, but also need to remind the voters what the Repub leadership has done, and is doing everything it can/could do to prevent progress on job creation, and to continue the economic policies of the failed Bush Administration.

Senate Republicans led by Jim Bunning (R-KY) filibustered passage of critical legislation to extend for 30 days jobless benefits, the needed health insurance extension for unemployed workers. The GOP leaders and party opposed the jobs bill, opposed the Stimulus bill, which saved and created  jobs. The GOP voted against  tax cuts for the middle class and and for small businesses, because the Democrat's sponsored bill did not include tax cuts for the rich.

The Democrats need to remind voters of the things that the Democrats were able to get done, and to make the case that the Democrats would have gotten more done, and will get more done, if there were/are more Democrats to overcome the Repub filibuster in the Senate. Ms Pelosi says she and her party are ready to take on these Repubs. Let's hope so.