PAUL RAHE: Suicide: The Democratic Party’s Self-Inflicted Wounds. “None of this had to happen. It was a consequence of the Obama administration’s decision to treat the economic crisis as an opportunity to transform America by shoving through measures like Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. It was a consequence of their treating the so-called stimulus bill as an opportunity to enrich the constituencies supporting the party. It was a consequence of their insisting on raising taxes on the investor class in the middle of a recession. And, of course, it was a consequence of Obama’s decision to say that, if he failed to bring unemployment down dramatically, he would be (and should be) a one-term President. Even the mainstream press is beginning to realize that Barack Obama and those who put him in the office where he is right now conspired unwittingly to bring down the Democratic Party.”

Unwittingly? Hmm.