Uber-neocon John Podhoretz offers up some interesting advice to the Democratic party, and I surprisingly agree with him. His advice: hit the GOP on corruption. In "GOP Corruption & Dem Impotence" in The New York Post, he writes:

John McCain counted 3,000 earmarks in the final year of Democratic control. Last year, there were nearly 14,000.

This corruption of the high-minded conservative approach to governance offers Democrats their main chance. But they don't have it all that easy. It won't be enough to point fingers and express disgust with GOP malfeasance.

It won't be enough because the American people are not stupid. They can add. And no matter how you add it up, Democrats always want to spend more government money than Republicans do — except on defense, which gets us right back to the Democrats' terrible bind.

Can the Democratic Party break its addiction to big-government remedies for American social ills? It will be difficult, to put it mildly. Right now, it seems impossible. Democrats are now lining up against a Social Security reform proposal that leading party lights once championed, simply because it features a Bush-supported non-governmental solution to an intractable problem.

Still, a future Democratic leader who can find a way to talk about big-government Republican corruption without promising more of the same could bring his party out of the wilderness into which it has wandered.

I find it hard to agree with John Podhoretz on much, but this is one issue upon which we see eye to eye. The only way for the Democrats to get back into power is to attack the horrible corruption of the GOP, and this comes down to five words:

Government accountability and fiscal responsibility