Senate Democrats would do well to listen to Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell:

“My message to those Democrats is don’t be afraid,” Rendell told ABC News. “Listen, you got elected because you wanted to do something to change the quality of people’s lives — here we have a chance to do something historic and if it means some of us are going to lose because of that so be it. At least you will have lost your office fighting for something and accomplishing something.”

He tells his fellow Democrats in Washington, DC, to “get that best bill as strong and as tight as you can then send it back to the Senate and let’s see if they (Republicans) are going to filibuster.”

“Make them filibuster,” he told ABC News in an interview for Good Morning America this morning. “Make them go before America people.  Make the American people look at a modern day spectacle of what a filibuster would entail. I think it’s time to call their bluff. I think it is too easy to throw up your hands and say, ‘We don’t have 60 votes.’ Remember its 51 votes for passage, they have to filibuster. Make them filibuster.”

Yes – make them filibuster! The media loves a good filibuster. The camera shots of the bunks being rolled out and moved and views of twilight floor speeches. We haven’t had that. Instead the media has started using the new meme that all legislation takes 60 votes to pass. They very seldom use the F word.

The Democrats need to learn how to play the media like the Republicans do. Consider it part of the communication problem they are suffering from.