...."The question for 2010 is: Whose side are you on?" Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said to reporters Thursday. He spoke after a closed meeting with Democratic senators, where palm cards itemizing contrasts between the parties were distributed for lawmakers to carry around during the recess.

"Democrats moving us forward, while Republicans take us back," the card says.

Obama has been reading from the same playbook, comparing Republicans to bad drivers who want to retrieve keys to a car they had driven into a ditch.

"When you get in your car, when you go forward, what do you do? You put it in 'D,' " Obama said last week at a Democratic National Committee event in Atlanta. "When you want to go back, what do you? You put it in 'R.' "

Let me see if I understand this right.

If you're driving into a ditch, you should put (keep) the car in "D" to go forward regardless if that ditch turns into a canyon where you see the precipice ahead. Keep the car in "D" instead of putting it in "R".

Yep, makes sense to me.

If going into "R" keeps us from going over that cliff (not sure if at this point it will, but at least I'll give it a chance rather than keep going 'forward') then I say:

PUT THE DANG THING IN “R”