It's official: The policies of our government have made us less safe

The Post headline says it all: " Intelligence Analysts Say War Spread Terrorism "

So, despite hundreds of billions spent over five long years, tens of thousands of casualties, the degradation of our military and the ruining of America's image around the world, Bush's own government has concluded that our failure in Iraq has made the world much more dangerous. 

Congressional Democrats have said that they are nationalizing the elections.  Will this quote, and this story, appear in every Democratic ad right now, this week? The Republicans have made their closing strategy clear - Democrats will make us less safe in the war on terror, cut and run in Iraq and raise taxes.   Their ads are mirroring their national arguments. 

If Democratic leaders are to nationalize the elections around their arguments, then the ads run must mirror the national argument.  Is this happening? According to the Washington Post a few weeks back, most Democratic candidates are rejecting the leadership's position on Iraq.  So what does this mean about the Democratic Party's capacity to nationalize and have our arguments and our ads mirror one another? An election is only national when a Party is speaking with one voice, everywhere.   

Putting this headline and the NIE into every race, right now, would be a good way to test whether Democrats really believe there is a national narrative, and can execute on it.