Is There a Democrat in the House?

Like Will Rogers, "I am not a member of any organized political party - I am a Democrat."

Tonight the Senate seat held by Teddy Kennedy for 47 years fell to a Republican. There'll be plenty of finger-pointing, but make no mistake: This seat wasn't won by the Republicans, it was lost by the Democrats. We won in '08 on the promise of change which we have repeatedly failed to deliver. President Obama turned his considerable political capital over to the likes of Ben Nelson and Max Baucus and, most appallingly, Joe Lieberman, all of whom squandered it with stunning selfishness, while disturbingly few genuine Democratic voices could be heard over the din of "no" Republicans and tea partiers and their sponsors at Fox Noise.

This is a wake-up call. If the people we elected don't start behaving like Democrats, don't abandon their doomed efforts to appease obstructionists, we will soon witness the most complete and unnecessary collapse of a political party in modern history. And this nation will suffer enormously for their failure.