Concern Trolls

It's always charming when the mainstream media shows concern that things are baaad for the Democratic Party. Like, everytime they can. On one hand, the press is always looking for a horserace, from the beginning of human reporting through to the deep future. On the other hand, those villagers in DC are a bit sheltered.

So two Democratic Senators are retiring. Any news about the six Republican Senators leaving the game? Maybe the state-by-state breakdown favors the GOP and maybe you've got Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) on life support. Maybe the so-called sixty vote filibuster-proof majority (as we saw in the healthcare vote, not 100% reliable) will be a memory at this time next year. But let's look at the problems for the Republicans:

"[Republicans] are having some really bloodletting primaries in virtually all of their states. Particularly in open-seats, they are having these huge primaries," Menendez said. "Whether it is the tea party people or the birthers or others, the reality is that the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, they keep pushing their candidates further and further to the right... So, the bottom line is, they are going to be out of sync of where the mainstream electorate is in the midterm election."

Compounding matters for the GOP, Menendez predicted, was that Democrats will have actual legislative achievements upon which to structure their candidacies.

And not just current achievements:

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One final note: under Republican rule we had a decade with zero job growth.

Bag that.