I ask those BC-er’s familiar with the DMSO to comment on this:

In the last day or so, the Democrats’ electoral prospects have dimmed somewhat. In Maryland, Beau Biden, the heir-apparent to Joe Biden, cancelled his expected run for his father’s seat in the Senate. The appointed filler has repeatedly refused to run for the full term. Maryland is as much of a Democrat fiefdom as Massachusetts was, with the Bidens being the reigning family. This is like having one of the actual members of the Kennedy Clan refusing to run in Massachusetts, for fear of getting beat. The Md. Senate seat was rated as a toss-up by Cook before Beau bailed.

In Arkansas, Democrat Representative Marion Berry has announced that he will not run for re-election. His statement is … interesting.

From POLITICO:

“Berry recounted meetings with White House officials, reminiscent of some during the Clinton days, where he and others urged them not to force Blue Dogs “off into that swamp” of supporting bills that would be unpopular with voters back home.

“I’ve been doing that with this White House, and they just don’t seem to give it any credibility at all,” Berry said. “They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’ We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.”

Anyone want to comment further on his connection with reality, NPD, and the odds that the SOTU is going to be eligible for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction to go with his Nobel Prize for not being Bush?

If the Congress-critters believed that, their Kool-aid has been spiked with Ecstasy.

Subotai Bahadur