A Good Year To Be A Democrat

This is starting to look like it might be historic.

A wildly unpopular president. A party in tatters. A young, charismatic candidate. A party that's hungry to regain power. A country that wants to go in any direction but the direction it's going.

There's change in the air. Can you smell it?

(God, I'm starting to sound like Peggy Noonan.)

Certain Republicans can smell it -- some of them, anyway.

Former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Davis can see what's happening after three losses in three consecutive special elections -- in Louisiana, Illinois and most recently in Mississippi.

Democrats winning in Mississippi. Mississippi. Fucking Mississippi.

Just think about that for second.

“The political atmosphere facing House Republicans this November is the worst since Watergate and is far more toxic than the fall of 2006," Davis is quoted by Politico as writing, "when we lost 30 seats (and our majority) and came within a couple of percentage points of losing another 15 seats. Whether measured by polls, open seats, money, voter registration, generic ballot, presidential popularity or issues, our party faces a steep climb to maintain our current numbers.”

That's putting it mildly. Our party faces imminent disaster is more like it.

Can you spell "filibuster-proof majority"? Because that's starting to look like a distinct possibility. When voters in Mississippi start going for the Democrats, real change is about to happen.

Davis is saying that the GOP could lose 19 seats in the House -- and if he's willing to go that far, who knows how big the real number could end up being?

I'm not counting the Republicans out yet. They could try any number of Swiftboat-like attacks on Obama and the Democrats in a desperate attempt to hold onto power. It might just work.

But things are looking very positive right now. People are fed up with the Republicans and their bullshit, and are in a mood to throw the bums out. And I don't blame them.

Which makes it a good year to be a Democrat.

Tom Moran