America's left, and the party it dominates, faced a reckoning yesterday. Two short years ago, exultant progressives believed America had shifted permanently to the left. Now that sweet taste of victory has turned to acrid ashes in their mouths. The scores of Congressional Democrats, along with even more state office holders, who lost their coveted positions, need a way of comprehending the disaster which has befallen them. The scapegoats offered by President Obama and his surrogates -- tea partiers, witches, foreign money, and Fox News -- will not suffice. President Obama himself, the man with a winning smile, slender build,...
