Will Dems have the guts to be as delusional as the Repube minority?

For four years now, the Dems, the elected and population majority in the House and Senate were deluded into thinking they were the minority. "The country is center right, the country doesn't want impeachment hearings, we can't get out of Iraq, the country doesn't want us to investigate Bush Administration malfeasence, the country doesn't want a public option, the country doesn't want health-insurance reform, the country wants tax cuts for the wealthy stimulate the economy".

Of course, this was about as true as the Leaning Tower of Piza. Nonetheless, it was how they acted. As if flipping a coin and having it land on edge is some kind of decision. As if bipartasanship was itself an end, instead of a means to an end.


And now the House is in Repube hands, so now House Dems are a factual minority instead of a fictional one. Is there a chance they will delude themselves into aligning with the real majority of public opinion? Is there a chance they will be an irrationally stubborn minority party for the real majority of people? Will they be steadfastly unified, obstructing everything the Repubes try to do?

Our Congressional leadership is still in the hands of the sort of cowards that Tom Tomorrow regularly nailed in those years in "This Modern World".