The Superior Desperation

***How desperate are these five freshman Donks?  In addition to be inescapably electorally doomed in two short months, they also appear to be suffering from temporal psychosis:

At least five freshman Democratic House members are running ads claiming they voted against the bank “bailout,” when in fact none was in Congress when the bill setting up the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, was enacted.

• Mary Jo Kilroy says she “voted against the bank bailout.”
• Kathy Dahlkemper says she voted “against a bailout that helped Wall Street.”
• Frank Kratovil claims to have cast his vote in opposition to “the big bank bailout.”
• Dina Titus’ ad maintains she “even voted against the bank bailout.”
• Glenn Nye’s ad tells viewers he went “against his own party” and “voted against the Wall Street bailout.”

Ensign Ed digs up to what they're pathetically making frantic reference - and reveals that it was built into the Pelosi Politburo's plans all along:

In other other words, Nancy Pelosi held an ass-covering vote that meant absolutely nothing in order to allow Blue Dog Democrats the chance to claim they opposed the second tranche.

....which the Senate had already passed a week earlier in order to release the remaining TARP funds for slush-fund duty.  The House vote was a meaningless, after the fact placebo.  But it does illustrate how cognizant Donk poobahs have always been about how unpopular and unwanted their extremist agenda would be with the American public, and how thoroughly irrelevant public opinion has always been in their policy intentions.  Which more than a little telegraphs how much weight these lame-ass claims to populist independence will carry down the campaign home stretch.

***In the "on the bubble" category, we have "Ignoble Baron" Hill (D-IN9), who isn't the proud owner of a fresh gaffe, but is now facing the inevitable music of the one from the Health Wars that will live in infamy throughout November 2nd:

This is, arguably, the principle reason why Baron Von Pompous is "on the bubble" in the first place.

***Lastly but starkly constrastually, there is tsunami-proof (more or less) John Spratt (D-SC5), whose staffers evidently are under [AHEM] no compunction to exercise oral discretion in their public statements:

“If Osama bin Laden ran in this district as a Republican, he would get 38% to 40% of the vote in any election year,” says Wayne Wingate, Spratt’s communications director, as he walks alongside the congressman at the festival. “This is a very Republican district. So you’ve got that plus this tea party angst against any incumbent in the world right now.”

You know how you know you have really messed up? When the web site run by Will Folks – you remember, the infamous guy who claimed Nikki Haley found him physically irresistible and never generated much proof – can take the moral high ground, you’ve made a terrible error: “Good Lord … Spratt was ‘walking alongside’ this guy? And he didn’t strangle him for saying something so stupid? Or at the very least pop him upside the head saying, ‘what is ya, ig-nrant?’”

It's been demonstrated over and over and over again over the past year and a half that Democrats exercise only as much verbal self-control as their political circumstances absolutely require.  If they're in no apparent jeopardy, then it's both middle fingers blazing, baby.

But this....well, this may be good enough to earn John Spratt the nickname "Mr. Bubble".

And maybe even a pop on Election Night for deliciously sweet measure.