Bob CollinsThere’s a lot of “sky is falling” hand-wringing going on in Democratic circles today but very little rises — sinks? — to the level of a San Francisco Chronicle columnist who gives “whiny young Democrats” the “what for” today.
See what happens when you wallow in hollow disappointment, trudging all over your liberal arts campus and refusing to vote in a rather important mid-term election, all because your pet issues and nubile ego weren’t immediately serviced by a mesmerizing guy named Barack Obama just after he sucked you into his web of fuzzyhappy promises a mere two years ago, back when you were knee-high to a shiny liberal ideology?
Well, now you know. This is what happens: The U.S. House of Representatives, the most insufferable gaggle of political mongrels this side of, well, the rest of Congress, reverts to GOP control like a brain tumor reverts to a more aggressive form of cancer, and everything gets bleaker and sadder and, frankly, a whole lot nastier.
Perhaps Jon Stewart’s Rally for Sanity came a week early.
(h/t: Julia Schrenkler)
