The thing is, people, that the Democrats feel, hunger, need, and believe they are on the cusp of turning the United States into a one party state in the model of the way the PRI used to run Mexico. Opposition parties will continue to exist, but will be irrelevant to anything at the federal level.
They really think they are THAT close. And why shouldn’t they? The own the IRS, the Justice Department, Health and Human Services, Education, Environment... virtually all the GS level bureaucrats above 11 or 12...
THEY OWN THE GOVERNMENT and they resent the hell out of the fact that elections are coming that might wrest that away from them.
They will say anything, do anything to prevent that. Howard, Reid, and Pelosi are just the freaky edge of things, but the silent party apparatus is even more scary.
I said this a long time ago, and I will say it again. They are going for all the marbles. They do not intend to lose power again.
When Dubya refused to clean house at DOJ etc I warned about the Clinton stay behinds sowed and thriving in the federal bureaucracy becoming entrenched as the fifth column. They set the cultural rules in the various agencies and controlled the new hires as well as setting policies using the power of the "at the discretion of..." Embedded in the law. The Clinton's were adepts at implementing Alinsky's rules and so we have had all the old Dem operatives popping up again in O's administration.
The barbarians within have demolished the walls of law.
Their soft coup d'etat has removed all the checks and balances established by the founding fathers aided by the media and a weak parochial minded GOP. The Republic is in free fall.
Democrats resent upcoming elections that threaten to wrest from their hot little hands, the all-consuming power they desperately cling to. They will say anything, and do anything, to hang on to total power.
If it's any consolation, history is replete with failed power-mongers----the people are soon onto their game and in a flash, they are gone. There was Peron, Mussolini, Ceasescu, and the little house-painter in 1940's era Europe. Most of the time, they meet an unenviable end.