*crickets chirping*

The senate DLF wants to spend a ton more money on social programs and raise taxes the rich to pay for it. Isn't that a bold new idea?

I tend to agree with you Mitch -- there are rarely any really "new" ideas in politics. True revolutionary ideas are few and far between, and aren't strictly necessary to prove a party is better than another. New ideas can be bad ideas, after all...

I'd prefer the Democrats, rather than feel compelled to dream up new ideas, to hold the line on core values and present ideas in keeping with those values. Ideas that probably aren't all that new, as you say Mitch. That, and combat the stream of bad ideas issuing forth from the Republican leadership. ;)

Anyway, I know that doesn't answer the question, but I don't really think the question needs to be answered.

Perhaps he didn't mean "new to the world", but rather "new to the Democratic Party". In that case I might recommend, oh, support for property rights, right to keep and bear arms, freedom of speech, reducing spending to match income, ....

For that matter, I might recommend most of those ideas to the Republicans too. The words aren't new, but from the available evidence the ideas might be.

I'm not a Democrat, but how about this for a new idea that works: Give up and let conservatives run the country.