The media have succeeded in demonizing George Bush and deifying Barak Obama. There is no percentage play for a Democrat who wishes to continue his career in Congress to stick his head up over the parapet. All one has to do is witness the ferocity of the attacks against Joe the Plummer, Miss California, Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, and the imminent destruction of Nancy Pelosi, to get a sense of the raw power of this perfect storm.
If I were a Democrat Congressman, I would be looking over my shoulder as if I were living in the age of Stalin's purges only now ostensibly conducted by MoveOn.org on behalf of George Soros. It is hard to fathom the depth of the paranoia which might be flowing under the surface of the Democrat party under these circumstances.
Still, I do not think it is a conspiracy but rather an unspoken awareness that one dare not cross the first black President and count himself as part as a respectable member of his party.
