Gut check time for the Democrats
Between the election of Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate, the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United , and (in North Carolina) the 51-count indictment of former Gov. Mike Easley's top aide Ruffin Poole, this week Democrats, especially those loyal to the Obama adminstration's leftward agenda, have absorbed a barrage of body shots. So far, we see little indication that these blows have made an impression. On the Sunday talk shows , Obama spokespeople contend that nothing has changed, and that any voter anger from Massachusetts was expressed by those angry at Congress for not more quickly abandoning 230 years of (mostly) limited, constitutional government and transform the United States into an unapologetic social democracy. Really? I wonder how much longer skittish Dems are going to drink this Kool-aid. Michael Goodwin in The New York Post nailed the challenges Obama partisans face in a few, devastating paragraphs: Massachusetts changed everything. America...