Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats: Huffington Post

[RollWithIt]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/failure-to-blow-election_b_141221.html

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Dean pointed to several key elements the Democrats put in place to ensure defeat, ranging from "a rancorous primary campaign" to "the appointment of me."

"Somehow, despite our best efforts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, we won," he said. "I came in here with a mandate to blow this thing and I didn't get it done."

Carol Foyler, a lifelong Democrat who owns a loom supply store in Portland, Maine, said she has been "nearly catatonic" since the election results were announced.

"For the past eight years, I've fixed myself some herbal tea, turned on NPR, and ranted about the Republicans," she said. "All that has been taken from me."

Elsewhere, Sen. John McCain offered this comment on Sen. Barack Obama's victory: "My friends, I've got him just where I want him."

[liberalmuse]

1. I was really glad...

to hear Matthews praise Dean and then to cut him off before he could protest. Dean is very humble, but he started this, and Obama does get the credit for using what Dean started and taking it to the moon.

[Warpy]

2. The DLC membership will need some serious therapy

because the guy they said could never win in a racist country did so without any input from them.

I don't think they're going to deal with being irrelevant well.

[formercia]

3. Now, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

It was nice when we knew who the enemy was.

[crikkett]

5. Now we just need to treat everyone as if they're friends. n/t

[TahitiNut]

8. I would never underestimate the ability of partisans ('D' or 'R') to shift the blame.

While the GOP has almost perfected the art of blame-shifting, I've seen a lot of savants on the left able to do so with a panache and zeal (see 'Nader') that matches or exceeds the GOP. It might be mildly amusing to witness the repudiation of proclaimed core beliefs (see 'democracy' and 'voting rights') inherent in that blame-shifting, if the novelty hadn't worn off long ago. Indeed, it has been a source of bemusement to me (an independent liberal) to see the childlike eagerness to see a 60-seat majority in the Senate, for the purported goal of being "filibuster-proof" knowing full well that the Democrats would need a 70-seat caucus to reliably muster 60 votes on such issues.

Some things never change, I guess. :shrug:

[curse of greyface]

4. Funny... this would make a good Onion piece. nt

[Shipwack]

6. That wasexactly my first thought, too! nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Yep, The glory days of shock and awe in Iraq, and widespread misery at home

are behind you, at last, and the nightmare scenario of a Clintonesque era of peace and prosperity beckons in all its awful ugliness. And Rahway, New Jersey, machinist, Bud Crandall, (now 51) reiterates that that's not the kind of world he wants his kids to grow up in.