Wretchard,
I seldom disagree with your observations, but in this one case I certainly do.

You state:

The unremitting assault by the Action Wires, street-men from ACORN, spokesmen with no apparent concern even for the appearance of fairness and even government prosecutors upon his critics more resembles the behavior of the desperate rather than the supremely confident.

programmer opines:

To me, this resembles more supreme confidence that the Left is in the ascendancy and no longer has to conceal anything. They feel they have the votes, the momentum, and their “constituents” approve of their ideology and methodology. They are on a headlong rush to a long awaited victory where they will crush the oppressors. They can smell the cool, clean air of freedom of long awaited Change. They tremblingly anticipate the euphoric rush of Hope realized. Anything is possible, free from the restraints of the old ways of doing things, there are no limits to anything. Free, free at last.

Excuse me, I’ll be right back, I need to go look up the definition of chaos….