They Don't Get It

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza blogs about the reelection of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to head their minority party caucuses in the Senate and House respectively.

The way life traditionally works is that if something goes really badly or even worse than expected, the top guy (or gal) takes the fall. CEO of a company who pushes a new product that flops? Bye bye. Manager of a baseball team that has a load of talent but misses the playoffs? See ya!

Democrats - from President Obama on down - seem entirely comfortable with essentially writing off the results of the last election and continuing on as though either a) nothing has happened or b) what happened was a total fluke that was out of anyone's control. That's a mistake.

Can you think of a clearer way to demonstrate to an angry electorate Democrats simply don't get it? They're blowing off the voters. Those chickens will come home to roost.