They were hamstrung by renegade "Blue Dogs" in their own party, which prevented them from using the so-called super-majority, which apparently they enjoyed only on paper. Now they "lost" what they never really had. Fuck them. The lesson is to clean house in their own party - - what is the point of supporting and tolerating Democrats who aren't really Democrats in their own house? I blame the DNC and the Party hierarchy generally, and Obama specifically for not knocking heads together to get the kind of Democrats they need. If Obama's hands were tied before his election (vis-a-vis his own party brass) they're not tied any longer and now is the time to make it clear to the Blue Dogs that they have already forfeited the right to any Party support henceforward, and that they'd better get out of Dodge now. And start backing it up, for Christ sake - - fuck incumbency, for a back-stabbing turncoat, there's no such thing as incumbency, Obama has to lay down the law to the party brass, and the party brass have to enforce that law - - that the only Democrats who will get Party support, that the only Democrats who will not incur vociferous and non-stop Party opposition - - are those who are solidly and unmistakeably lodged as Democrats within the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
