Frosty the GOP.    

The snow that struck the Chesapeake River Valley is said to be the worst storm in 90 years. A perfectly dark storm for the easy, anxious, dreary metaphors at the D.C. Hilton on Saturday 6 where POTUS addressed the DNC: "Sometimes it may be against a blizzard, but we're going to live up to our responsibility to lead."  The DNC leadership is for clearing access to the exits.  The party is correct to be frightened. This is what George Bush looked like to the GOP in the winter of 2006 -- right after Tom Delay skeedaddled because of his Abramoff issues and the Al Quds force launched another version of the Shia civil war in Iraq. With POTUS, the Iraqi defeat analogy is the healthcare defeat and all the other legislation that he made his private vendetta against the Republicans and those villains who he calls "the lobbyists."   Shelby's gleeful blanket hold on nominees matched the three feet of snow with drifts outside. Capitol Hill is (once again) not functional, and the GOP has chosen to imitate snowmen and wait for springtime. When Frosty the GOP fades, the Republican recruiting will redouble and the Democratic retirements will accelerate. The only promise to the tearful DNC from the White House is that it might try a reconciliation trick with healthcare. This is difficult to believe.  Such a creative parliamentary maneuver by the Democratic majority would turn the 335 Democratic members of Congress into 335 Jack Nicolsons sitting in a maze in the 90-year storm of the Shining.