Nostalgia

Remember when the Republican machine was an overwhelming juggernaut, dominating news cycles, playing public sentiment like a fiddle, and utterly dominating our national discourse?

What the hell happened? Now they can't tie their shoes without tying left and right together and triggering domino-like pratfalls among their colleagues. They still get attention from the press, of course, but that only seems to drive them further off into the deep brush as they lurch from gaffe to embarrassment.

I know they were never as good even we gave them credit for. But the fall is still remarkable.

At the rate they are going they will lose still more seats in Congress in 2010, which will make it 3 in a row. Has that ever been done before?