The Self-Awareness Of A Horny Adolescent Chimp

I don't understand how Villager journalists are supposed to be so wonderful to be with at parties and other social events.  I would expect people so fundamentally unself-aware to pick their noses in public, burp loudly when eating and drinking and scratch whatever itches no matter where it is:

Eager to drain the 2009 elections of drama and import, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs claimed Tuesday night that President Barack Obama was “not watching returns.”

You can be sure that he is studying them closely now: The off-year elections were, in two big races, an unmistakable rebuke of Democrats, reshuffling Obama’s political circumstances in ways likely to have severe near-term consequences for his policy agenda and larger governing strategy.

Later in the same article:

It is true enough that both Democratic candidates had severe limitations — Deeds was a notably unprepossessing candidate compared with the polished McDonnell, and Corzine was deeply unpopular and at the helm of a state suffering through difficult economic times. Neither race should be viewed as strictly a referendum on Obama. But if there is a danger in overinterpreting off-year elections, it is also a mistake to underinterpret.

Mainly, the mistake of not overinterpreting these elections is that then these pathetic hacks would either be required to think before submitting such an abomination or, more likely, they'd have nothing to write at all.

We've said this on this blog over and over - and others are saying it as well - the only race with national implications was NY-23 (something Atrios got completely wrong).  New Jersey wasn't about Obama, and neither was Virginia.  The only national implication to either state is that Christie and McDonnell stayed the hell away from abortion, gay marriage and making public sacrifices to images of Ayn Rand and John Birch.

NY-23 is actually about Obama, DC, Democrats and Republicans, because a bunch of Republicans made it that way.  Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck and the barbarian hordes from Fox News found a willing subject in Hoffman - you can bet that if Christie or McDonnell had given them any sort of encouragement, the hordes would have been screaming at voters in Virginia and New Jersey as well.  But only Hoffman rolled out the red carpet for them, and their involvement directly caused the most Republican district in the history of America to elect a Democrat.

Bart Stupak just got one vote further away from defeating the House HCR bill, but Villagers are going to run with their "Obama rebuked" storyline no matter what.  I wish the Dems could have cleared the table just to see how Broder and his minions would rescue their storyline then.

Comments

[oddjob]

Oh, that's easy. Broder would have lamented the partisanship of the times.

[Crissa]

Ya know what?

I reported the article as being inaccurate and the source should be pulled from Yahoo's feed. It wasn't easy finding the link, though.

[Sir Charles]

Politico is a right wing rag. John Harris, Jim Vanderhei, Mike Allen, et al. are among those I've written about who cannot stand the idea that every year isn't 1994 and that we liberals aren't always losers.

Stephen,

I thought Atrios comment very strange as well. I would say NY-23 is more nationally signficant than NJ by far.

[Stephen]

Crissa, that's a great idea. How did you get it done?

[Crissa]

Up in the top of the page is 'Help' then there in the main crossing bar is 'Contact Us' and then the type of contact you can actually use is 'News Source Submission Form'.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news/submitsource.html

I've been trying to remember to write letters when I see things like this. It's not like I'm doing anything else between waiting for emails and callbacks.