Quote of the day: on Dems losing in November

“Earth to House Democrats,” ... “It’s time to press the panic button.”

That was "Bill Galston, a senior fellow in the Democrat-leaning Brookings Institution" quoted in this piece in the Economist, which has a classy, typical, Economist-style reporting:

What has gone wrong for the Democrats? Almost everything.

I suspect that the clincher is the following:

One hope on the Democratic side is that the conservative “tea-party” movement will drive the Republicans too far to the right for the taste of mainstream voters. But there is not much evidence of that in the polling. Indeed, the number of voters telling Gallup’s pollsters that the Republicans are too conservative has fallen since 2008 from 43% to 40%, and the proportion who think them about right has grown from 38% to 41%. Meanwhile the share of voters who consider the Democrats “too liberal” has risen from 39% to 49%. That cannot be good news for Ms Pelosi and her anxious colleagues in the House.

It is so bizarre that the executive arm is perceived as too liberal, and the judiciary is considered too conservative, but only the legislature is up for elections this fall.  Damn; I wish the Supreme Court justices were up for re-election instead :)

Which means that two important issues that are way past the expiration date will be further delayed: immigration, and energy.  Unfortunate. But, all these make for fantastic political theatre--reminds me of the dirty, rotten, politics in India :)

Who would have thought that the UK, with a Tory/LibDem alliance, could turn out to be the "Change" that we have been waiting for!!!