Democratic anger

More than irritation and angst, I've been struck by the anger, if not rage, in both individual democratic loyalists and their partners in the press.

I suspect some fraction of the anger is amplified by a dawning realization that they're being outplayed by an opponent who not only is thinking more moves ahead, but knows their own game better than they do. i.e. they see themselves drawn by their own failings to take the offered bait at every move, even though they know each nibble is tempting fate, and now they find they have to play out a losing hand in full view of those to whom they've boasted.

No wonder they feel the need to cast Karl Rove and team as less-than-ethical puppet masters.

But maybe the Dems will get their miracle this election, and not have to wander in the wilderness like the Pubs did for 40 years (from Roosevelt) while they reinvented themselves in theory and in practice. But this means Dems have to believe in Miracles (12mb mpg), an act of faith in something other than the government.