Well this is just terrible news. Hee hee hee.

The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born.

The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party.

I don't usually take glee in the misery of others.

But I will make an exception in this case.

The Republicans cannot blame anybody for their fall from grace but themselves.

They had control of the Presidency, the Senate, and the House. And with absolute power, they were absolutely corrupted.

Today we have our military bogged down in an endless conflict, we are facing a recession, we have become a country that tortures for the first time in our history, we have spied on and lost the confidence of our citizens, and we are at the brink of losing our vaunted reputation as the world's last super power.

And all of that happened on the Republicans watch. They simply cannot blame anybody but themselves for all that we have suffered in the last eight years and the repercussions to come in the near future.

No I cannot feel sorry for the Republicans.

But I do feel immensely hopeful for the changes that are about to come.