The Superior Audacity

It is truly remarkable what comes out of Democrat mouths with a modicum of common sense and no longer having any skin in the game:

Yes, yes, we already knew that ramming ObamaCare down our throats would be a horrible political miscalculation for them.  So did they, really, but they wanted it so damned much after six decades of chasing it that they just couldn't help themselves, and took comfort in the graveyard-whistling folds of lunatic delusion that rammage would trigger an Abeliene Paradox in reverse - the most egregious example of Donk psychological projection yet.

Personally I think Bayh was planning to retire from the Senate anyway and the O-Care death march just confirmed his already-made decision.  Which doesn't really explain why he voted for it until you remember that he didn't call the health care takeover a policy miscalculation.  He'd have been content with incrementalism, but he still wanted to see the "ball" moved toward that goal line.  Kind of like the basketball coach whose team is down by two with ten seconds left and has designed an intricate play during the time out to get just the shot he wants, and when the ball is inbounded his shooting guard heaves a three-point bomb instead: as it arcs through the air the coach starts exclaiming, "Oh, nooooooooo..." and it morphs into "....oooo-hoooooo!" as the shot tickles the twine.  Not the play he wanted, but it worked.

Until it's disallowed because of an offensive foul.  Over to you, Pat Caddell:

Unlike President Reagan at his first-term midpoint, in 1982, “Obama is not able to go out there and say, ‘Stay the course.’ That’s just not possible. The Democrats’ hope with health care was that ‘people will like it after we pass it.’ Well, they hate it, and you don’t see any effort to promote it. The Democrats had a chance to do this right — most people supported aspects of reform — but because of the way it was passed, as a crime against democracy, the country has simply not accepted it. The lies, the browbeating, the ‘deem and pass’ — all of it was a suicide mission.”…

Can Obama soften the blow at the eleventh hour? Caddell says it will be tough. Any efforts by Obama to right his ship, he says, will still face an electorate largely uninterested in new West Wing talking points or presidential maneuvers. Caddell believes that 2010 will be a louder, more raucous moment than 1978 in American politics. “The discontent is much larger than the turnout at Glenn Beck rallies,” he says. “A sea of anger is churning — the tea parties are but the tip of the iceberg. People say they want to take their country back, and, to the Democrats’ chagrin, they’re very serious about it.”

Sorry, Chris!  Looks like it's back to the old electronic brain!

From those Demorats that are still skittering madly back and forth in their self-created maze comes something of an epiphany: Here for all these months I was thinking that "Sorry Charlie" Crist was systematically turning coat and chameleonizing on one issue after another because the ruling party was the only place he had to go; impending ex-Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) has reminded me that Sorry Charlie and the Jackasses were made for each other:

“We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet,” he fumed to a roomful of voters. “In my view, we have nothing to show for it.”

And that was a Democrat, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, who voted “yes” on the stimulus, the health-care overhaul, increased education funding and other costly bills Congress approved under his party’s control.

Faced with a potential wipeout in November’s midterm elections, candidates such as Bennet are embracing budget cuts with the enthusiasm of Reagan Republicans.

Paul Hodes, the Democratic Senate candidate in New Hampshire, recently proposed $3 billion in spending cuts that would slice airport, railroad and housing funds. Elected to the House four years ago as an anti-war [re]gressive, Hodes lamented that “for too long, both parties have willfully spent with no regard for our nation’s debt.”

The new push for austerity could prove too little, too late for Democrats, who fear losing their majorities in both chambers of Congress. In dozens of House and Senate races, incumbent Democrats are struggling in polls, leading political analysts to raise the serious prospect of Republican takeovers in the House and even the Senate.

Actually, Democrats such as Bennet are embracing budget cuts with the enthusiasm that a man caught buried to the hilt in another woman's vagina by his wife embraces monogamy and contrition.  He's not as far behind in the polls as Hodes is, which explains why the latter throws in the, "Don't get mad at me, honey, EVERY husband cheats!" flourish.

Don't pity them, though; they'll keep going until they get their lame-duck "climax".  What's that adage?  "In for 1.3 quadrillion pennies, in for a pound."