I'm quoted heavily in an article running in today's National Journal about, among other things, the Republican Party continuing to stand around and point blame about what happened this past election while we're missing opportunities to push-back on Barack Obama's Change:

The day after the election, his campaign began building a new Web site, Change.Gov, to recruit volunteers and job applicants. And this week, Obama released the first-ever presidential YouTube address.

The Web doesn't have to benefit just one party, All insists, pointing to the failure of Republicans to capitalize on a few early missteps from the Obama transition team. For example, when Obama initially posted his agenda on his transition site, only to take it back down, Republicans didn't "call him out on" not being transparent and open. Moreover, no Republican put up an alternative to that agenda.

"We don't even have a modern apparatus to fight back against this guy," All lamented. "There doesn't seem to be any kind of modern war room or anyone in the Republican Party paying attention to what Barack Obama is doing."

Let me dig in a bit more... please weigh in.

While Republicans dwell on the past, Barack Obama and his Administration have made early mistakes online and have been able to score points unchecked in the modern world. By not calling Barack Obama on these issues, we’re letting him set precedent without our input and are failing to provide an alternative message to the American people.

For example, when Barack Obama’s team launched Change.gov, “The office of the President-Elect,” they launched it with a bold and aggressive policy agenda. If you visit the site today, you’ll find that it's still there; however, as reported by TechPresident.com, it had been scrubbed from the site.

This was a missed opportunity to question why his agenda was removed and make some noise in the mainstream media.

Here's another.

Already, Obama’s Transition Team has released six clever and interesting web videos on YouTube that have been viewed more than 1.5 million times (how many of those views are journalists?). Oddly, comments, viewer ratings, and video responses have been disabled from the YouTube community. To me, this is an opportunity to call Barack Obama out on his promise to be open and transparent with his government.

Further, why haven't Republicans responded to the videos with conservative alternatives?

While Republicans once again sit on their hands and complain and "talk" about the problems of the past election and how bad we got swamped, Barack Obama and his administration have already launched a transition website, issued an agenda for change, and have launched emails and six good web videos promoting his governing agenda.

Republicans need to stop talking and start responding to everything Barack does on the Internet. Create a website "SoThisIsChange.com" and respond to every single video he or his administration posts with credible, non-sniping responses from a network of surrogates.

David Cameron said recently that the point of a political party is not to win elections but rather to prove that you're able to govern. Agreed.

UPDATE 6:59 PM EST: It should be noted that transparency champion Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform issued a press release immediately calling on Obama to restore the removed agenda. Mr. Norquist's quote, "This is the opposite of transparency and we would ask that Obama restore the deleted portion of the site."