That is funnier than hell, but I highly doubt any Republicans are smirking today. The GOP merely won a couple of gubernatorial elections that we've known would be 50/50 propositions for many months now. Despite the claims by Fox News that it's some sort of mandate on the Obama administration, the fact remains that the GOP remains a party without a unified voice or a unified face to lead it.

With that being said, however, the Democrats are almost certainly walking straight into that trap that every party in power usually fails to avoid. They'll overreach their boundaries, alienate the moderates whose support put them in power in the first place, and the GOP will be able to regain some of their lost power by doing surprisingly little to earn it.

There's nothing unusual about this. The Democrats, as recently as 2003, were a party that had no voice whatsoever. But by merely sitting back they allowed the GOP to shoot itself in the proverbial cowboy boot and thus take advantage of a similar change in momentum.

WHAT...YOU GET TWO COMMENTS ON ONE OF THE TWO BEST VIDEOS I HAVE EVER SEEN ON THE ENTIRE TPM SITE.

Shite.

This is sooooooooooo good. I mean the cheap way would be to play the MOTHER GOOSE VIDEO of 9/11 but hell the comedy movies have already done that.

I do not care what others think right now. THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN ATTACKING THE SINGLE WORST PRESIDENT I HAVE EVER WITNESSED IN SIXTY YEARS.

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Great David, thank you. I always look forward to your blogs. I have been listening to NPR and for the last two days they are pushing the meme that this means the end of all the big love for Obama. Not one word about the exit polls that said it had nothing to do with Obama. Not one word about the NY 23 seat going to a Dem after over a century. Not one word how VA usually has an opposing party governor from the president. For the past two days they have had republican bloviators (hmm... spell check wanted to replace bloviators with calumniators!) on but no democratic bloviators. Sometimes I think if I had a set of Republican ears to put on maybe the MSM wouldn't sound so bad. But what keeps ringing in my head is the reporter (I cannot remember who) saying that the press did push the idea that Clinton was close when they knew she wasn't anywhere near just to keep the race going. Between the MSM and the lobbist we don't have a chance.