[Wonder Warthog]

"The denial about this country’s shift to the center amongst many here is positively frightening."

BS. There is no evidence for any such "shift to the center". The Democrats won for two reasons---disgust with the war in Iraq, and because Rahm Emmanuel found a bunch of Democrats to run as social conservatives ("pro-life" and "pro-gun").

Once those voters realize that said "socially conservative Democrats" will STILL toe the liberal party line, they'll be voted out.

[Hildy]

your denial is actually worse than I thought.