GOP pollster Frank Luntz ripped into House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as he delivered a grim warning for Republicans if they continue their legislative drift.

It could be ugly for Republicans, Luntz said, offering an uninhibited analysis of how his GOP friends are squandering their opportunities.

The GOP majority in the House “is in jeopardy,” Luntz said, if the election were held today.

“I don’t see a message. I don’t see a line, a sentence, a paragraph. I don’t see an agenda,” Luntz said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast briefing.

“Am I predicting that the Republicans will lose in 2006? No,” Luntz said. “If this were Oct. 25, 2006, I would say yes, they would lose the majority. But they have an entire year to get their act together.”

Luntz — a backstage architect of the GOP’s 1994 Contract with America — is urging message renewal at a time Democrats are putting the finishing touches on their issues package intended to nationalize the 2006 elections — from local races to Congress.

Democratic leaders settled on a name for their campaign, “Together, America Can Do Better,” though the leadership is still pondering the timing for the rollout. The Democrats consulted with marketing experts — moving outside the political-consulting community — to get fresh perspectives on how to sell their agenda.

Hurricane Katrina stirred up a political storm because “for the first time, people palpably got angry with this president and this White House.”

Republicans have the advantage in that the face of the House Democrats is Pelosi.

“This is the most negative, angry, bitter political leader I have seen in years,” Luntz said.

“Truth is, if they had [Rep.] Rahm Emanuel [D-Ill.] or [Rep.] Harold Ford [D-Tenn.], they would be heading towards, in the direction of, a majority because the two of them understand that you have to stand for something … you cannot win just by being negative.”

Luntz said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) comes across as “kinder” and “gentler.”

I thought Luntz’s comments about Pelosi were off, because Pelosi is as capable as any grandmother — even the top Democrat in the House — to go on a gushy riff about her grandchildren.

Just last Thursday, at her regular briefing — at the very opening — Pelosi talked about taking her 8-year-old grandson to a U2 concert that night.

“My husband always says in California, ‘I always like to time how long it is before — in any speech that you are making or any conversation you are having — before you get around to talking about your grandchildren.’ I didn’t lose any time this morning.”

• Go-go White Sox. The place to watch the third game of the World Series Tuesday night was the Capitol leadership office of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

Serving Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, the office suite of the Senate whip hosted Mayor Richard Daley, in town on other business, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and several members of the Illinois delegation. Not present: House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).

By the time the record-long game ended after 2 a.m. with a Sox victory, only groggy diehards Durbin and Daley and a few other stragglers were still there.

Sweet is the Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it