This was diaried by Hunter over at Dkos. It's a theme Democrats can run on. It's an answer to Rush and Beck and the Teabaggers and that right-wing moonbat at work. Read the whole thing. Arm yourself.
One of the more striking characteristics of the "new" Republican agenda (or the agenda of the conservative movement, or Tea Party movement, or whatever they prefer to call themselves) is how unrelentingly negative it is. Depressingly, ploddingly negative; America is simultaneously the best and greatest country in the world, as blanket assertion, and a nation on a slow death march towards insolvency and irrelevance. America must make sacrifices, goes the refrain, but every one of the sacrifices seems to involve retracting a past long-term success; America must not (something), is the defining chant, where (something) is any number of things that other countries can successfully do and have done, but America cannot, or an even larger list of somethings that America used to do, and quite competently, but America can do no longer.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/17/965571/-No-We-Cant?showAll=yes