eugene robinson is an nbc political analyst and an associate editor and columnist at the washington post as well as an msnbc analyst. the fact is if good things happen when you re president then you get more credit than due and when you are the president you perhaps get more blame than you are due. so yes. in this case however, i think nobody comes out looking good. i think this is not a zero sum game. this is a negative sum game. and the goal at this point is, not to lose the worst. in your most recent column, you said that progressives need a big idea. and what you were addressing, the competing narratives that are about to unfold in 2012. you feel like the republicans already have their soundbite, which is what?