More Village History

The more wrong about political analysis you have been in the last ten years, the more respect and clout you have in the Village. Doug at Balloon Juice points out Cokie Roberts from 2006, who was convinced that the Dems were going to blow it by pushing to the left:

Yes, I do because I think, first of all, that pushing the party to the left, which is what’s likely to happen, is pushing the party to the position from which it traditionally loses, and In presidential elections but also it will send a signal to everybody in the Senate, watch out, the only smart thing to do here is play to your base, and then what that means is that your legislation becomes a mess, which it already is but even more of a mess...

In which case Doug notes how wrong she was:

Cokie Roberts uttered these words three years ago. I don’t need to tell you that since then, Democrats have picked up 15 seats in the Senate, 55 in the House, and captured the presidency with the largest percentage of the vote of any Democratic president since 1964. She literaly could not have been more wrong.

I’d feel a lot better if she’d describe health care reform as DOA.

No kidding. I'm waiting for her to say it's dead, because I then know it's a guaranteed bill this year signed into law.

Sadly, Cokie Roberts is not the only denizen of Opposite Land. They still are our political pundit class, known for their wisdom and ability to read the currents of Washington.

Just do the opposite of what they say and you'll be fine. Unless you're a beltway pundit, that is. Then you get Froomkined.