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If you haven't bookmarked John Hayward, you really should. A taste from a real stemwinder he wrote yesterday:

The nervous survivors of the 2014 Democrat massacre won’t be thrilled to hear Obama saying he plans to triple down on everything that pushed his approval ratings into the cellar, but it’s consistent with Obama’s ego and governing style.  I wonder if we’ll hear a lot of tough talk to chin up the Democrat base this week, followed by a good deal of golfing, vacations, and speeches to adoring college students, rather than hand-to-hand political combat with the Republican congress.  The Republicans are, sadly, going to give Obama a good deal of what he wants without a fight – they’re already moving quickly to disarm themselves of their budgetary weapons.  Posturing is cheap, and Presidential bluster can wring a lot of concessions from an opposition party that lives in terror of the political media.  Those concessions might prompt hostile “journalists” to lean back in their seats with folded arms and give the GOP leadership a little credit for “bipartisanship”… but they’ll outrage the voters who handed the Republicans a landslide in 2014, making it unlikely they’ll turn out for a repeat performance in the next election.  The Democrats can improve their position considerably by talking tough, acting reserved, and allowing the normal inertia of Washington to slide the Senate back into their hands in 2016.

It's one thing to conclude that the Democrats deserved to lose. It's another to say that Republicans deserved to win. Lots more at the link.