Last Tuesday's primary elections in Colorado elicited this headline from the L.A. Times, "Democrats hail election results as breakthrough" and this gushing comment from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, "Last night's elections … were nothing but good news for the Democratic Party."Wow. Just what happened that so excited these liberals?
A Democrat won...in the Democrat primary.
That's right. That's what it's come down to in the run up to November's elections. The news is so bleak for Democrats that their spokesmen are trying to get the base pumped up by glorying in the fact that President Obama's man in the Democrat primary got the nod.
Furthermore, so desperate for a silver lining are Team Obama and their journalist pals, they are trying to spin disaster as success. There has been no greater harbinger of Democrat doom than the groundswell of public opinion against Obama's policies regarding health care, bailouts, the apology tours, a bogus stimulus package, etc. It's a surge of popular opinion that crosses lines of party, age, race and region. Democrats can't stand against it so they make fun of it, use what they feel is a dismissive term (tea-party) to describe it, and characterize it as something sinister and stupid.
But Robert Gibbs goes further into the realm of irrationality in this instance by actually claiming that the success of "tea-party" candidates in Colorado are a good thing for Democrat hopes in November. Remarkable. In fact, so remarkable that one must assume Gibbs knows all too well he's offering pipe dreams to the faithful. Keep them happy and hopeful...right until the inevitable end.
For the truth is quite clear. Democrats are in deep trouble -- in Colorado and all across the country. The polls show this. The voter turnout and energy show this. And the continuing saga of an imploding presidency (out of touch, arrogant, inefficient, counter-productive, secretive, and oh-so-unbelievably-expensive) shows this too.
Thus the most momentous line in this story was the question asked by Brian Walsh, from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "If last night was as good for the Democrats as the White House and party strategists would have you believe, then we should all be left to wonder — what constitutes a bad night?"
