The Democrats: Losing because they’re lost

Which finally gets me to the point, which is the Massachusetts election, which embarrassing event coincides with the one-year anniversary of the Obama presidency. As in, why did anyone bother to hope things would be different?

Depressives are ecstatic. Nothing is more exhilarating than the words “I TOLD you so!” It has taken exactly one year for them to be joined in despair by everyone in the Democratic Party who believed there would be change they could believe in. They’re feeling mighty SHORTchanged about now.

Depending on their level of militancy, the president has either overplayed or underplayed Democrats’ agenda right into the toilet.

Their Washington anniversary party has been canceled because word got out about another gate crasher. This one is not one of the Salahis or Carlos Allen. His name is Scott Brown.

Unlike the others, he has an invitation, provided by the people of Massachusetts to come here and rain on the Obama parade, which will now come to a complete halt.

Leaders will try and figure out what to do now that they’re obviously so out of step with the country. The first priority will be coming up with some way to save healthcare reform, or at least trying to save face.

There will also be lots of finger-pointing as each one tries to blame the others for not marching together. And not paying enough attention to the obvious heckling from the disgusted throngs watching along the route.

The Democrats’ best hope would be the sorry state of the enemy forces trying to trample them in November. The usually lockstep GOP ranks are also in disarray, what with the ragtag Tea Party brigade acting like a Republican Guard, purging all but the most right-wing true-believers.

Even so, they have regained the momentum now, catapulted toward the big prize and a sense that maybe, just maybe, they can achieve the impossible and wrest congressional control away from the Democrats.

You’re saying that’s overstating things? That there’s no way something that gargantuan could happen? Well, just remember that anyone who predicted Scott Brown would win the “Kennedy seat” in Massachusetts would have been laughed right out of the room.

Now it’s the Republicans who are laughing uproariously. They are united by this upset at the very same time the Democrats are doing what they always do. They’re running off every which way, taking no directions. Unless they somehow get together, they’re heading to even bigger defeats ahead and a Republican inauguration three years from now.

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