Don’t look now folks but this ship that was so completely misdirected by the Bushies, could be starting to turn around. Unemployment is down to 9.6% from over 10%. What if it reduced by that many percentage points every couple of months? By early fall, the number would be sub 8%. The Democracts, underserving as I think they are (who wastes the biggest majorities in history for zilch like they have? Shame!!), could all of a sudden start looking like they are badass, like they have some shit, like they did something! All of a sudden, Obama’s badassitude (even though he has not shown barely a pinch since he was inaugurated) would start to tip the scale. All of a sudden, the Armagedon that everyone is predicting for the Democrats would still be an Armagedon – for the Republicans. Interesting. No? But then again, the Democrats have Reid and Rahm Emanuel. They would find a way to screw even that up too. Can you say healthcare?

This one was an interesting study in the total lack of badassitude on the one hand, and the suprising display on the other. Democrats have for ever owned Massachussets senate seats. Ted Kennedy, who held one those seats forever, was a badass. Total bonafide badass. His politics was characterised by pure unadulterated badassitude. He worked for every single vote every single time. And he got his votes. And he kept his seat. For years and years and years. Then, bless his sould, he passed on.

The Democrats nominated one Coakley to replace him. She wins the nomination, and decides to take a long political nap. No political events, no rallies, no advertising, no polling. And the punk Democratic party leadership let her. From the White house to the local office. No one tried to wake her from her political nap. Old Ted was turning in his grave!! Meanwhile Brown, the Republican was working like a badass. Event after event, ads, his face in the papers. Badassitude worthy in fact of replacing Ted. Not even others in his party had believed he was a badass.

Then round about yesterday for all intents and purposes, some Democrat reading a newspaper noticed that they were about to have their ass kicked! And the scramble was on. But it was a punkass, no account effort to cover up for a total lack of political badassitude. The whole party leadership, top to bottom, fell asleep at the switch (side bar -these are the guys we are trusting with the economy and healthcare??). Their cowardly, complacent unprincipled gutlessness and lack of vision was exposed in a manner so totally unprecedented as to be completely incomprehensible. From failing to pass meaningful healthcare reform, to a cowardly retreat on change and their principles, they have finally reached the depths of their true incompetence. These shameless, gutless wonders have given away, in broad daylight, without a fight, one of the truly Democratic seats in all history, held by the lion, Ted, whose political badassitude was legendarily stratospheric.  There can not be a Democrat anywhere, indeed an American anywhere who must not feel, somewhere in their gut, a sense of betrayal if for no other reason than that these Democrats lay down to the opposition in public, even though we know that they have always laid down in private. I gotta take a shower!