Democrat Disarray?

by JASmius

Is anybody else a more than a "smidgeon" surprised at the plaintive desperation in this Donk fundraising pitch sent out under The One's signature?:

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is offering a one-day deal in hopes of boosting contributions in its fight to keep the Senate, by promising, in an e-mail pitch signed simply "Barack Obama," to triple-match any donations that come in on Monday.

"If the GOP gains just six seats, the same Republicans who just voted to sue me will control both Houses of Congress," the Obama-signed pitch says. "Republicans will control everything in Congress from Medicare to education. I don’t need to tell you how devastating the consequences would be."

First of all, it's "could be," not "would be".  Democrat fundraising pitches are always full of hysterical fear-mongering, depicting Republicans as rapacious, ravenous zombies with the speed of cheetahs, running down the poor, disabled, women, and minorities and devouring them alive, when the reality is far more akin to a giant slug, sitting there passively while Democrats douse it in mounds of salt until its guts turn inside-out.

Second, if the Nutroot rank & file were capable of stopping and thinking about this ridiculous rhetoric for even a moment, it would dawn on them that their demigod still has his pen and his phone, and if there were any chance of a GOP Senate doing what he claims, he could just sign an Executive Decree overturning the midterm election results and turning control of the upper chamber back over to Dirty Harry (G)Reid.  Either way, they have very little to worry about.

But libs are not capable of calm, rational thought, especially when their collective political star is falling.  Case in point:

Barack Obama has been hiding from world debacles and leadership responsibilities on the golf course, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote in a commentary over the weekend, assailing the commander in chief for staying on the greens while life's "hazards" mount.

The column was headlined "The Golf Address" and was a parody of the Gettysburg Address.  "FORE! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago," the column began.

"I know it doesn’t look good to have pictures of me grinning in a golf cart juxtaposed with ones of James Foley’s parents crying, and a distraught David Cameron rushing back from his vacation after only one day, and the Pentagon news conference with Chuck Hagel and General Dempsey on the failed mission to rescue the hostages in Syria," Dowd portrayed the president as saying.

"We’re stuck in the rough, going to war all over again in Iraq and maybe striking Syria, too," she wrote. "Every time Chuck says ISIL is 'beyond anything we’ve ever seen,' I sprout seven more gray hairs. But my cool golf caps cover them. If only I could just play through the rest of my presidency." ISIL is one of the alternate names for the Islamic State.

Her column adds to criticism lobbied against Obama, who continues to golf while critics argue he is detached from problems he should be dealing with on the job — from the civil rights issues in Ferguson to the Ebola outbreak in Africa to the ongoing marauding of the Islamic State.

Don't worry, Mo; O will play through the rest of his term, and the next three or four after that.  Beats me what you're fretting about.  Or have you forgotten that that is what his job is now?  What do you expect him to do for a "fundamental transformation" encore?  He's nationalized most of the economy, most especially health care, he's divided the American people against each other in half a dozen different ways at minimum, he's erased the nation's borders, he's destroyed the economy AND the currency, he's removed America from global superpower status economically, militarily, AND culturally, he's eviscerated the Constitution and is ruling the country by despotic fiat....what more do you want?  Or are you really so noodle-headed as to believe that the policies that produced these carpet-bombing disasters would usher in Obamatopia?

Yes, gentles, this is Maureen Dowd we're talking about, so yes, that was a rhetorical question.

Or maybe she's just spooked at how some Republicans, at least, are no longer so easily cowable?:

Texas Governor Rick Perry asked a state judge to throw out his indictment on public corruption charges, claiming the prosecution which his lawyers have called a political attack is barred on constitutional grounds.

Perry assailed the felony abuse-of-office charges as an assault on the state government’s separation of powers and asked that his indictment be dismissed, according to papers filed in Austin state court today.

Perry, a Republican and potential candidate for president in 2016, said his authority to veto any legislation or spending measure is his right as governor and is “the key limitation” on the state legislature.

“Subjecting any sitting governor to a criminal prosecution and injecting the judiciary into a political dispute would be an unprecedented assault on this cherished separation of powers,” Perry’s lawyers said in the filing.

The Left losing faith in their messiah, the Right mobilizing to counter-attack, phoenix-like - maybe this really is the End of Days....