In Which I Help Out Charlie Cook

Political prognosticating pundit Charlie Cook is decidedly down on the Dems according to Chris Cillizza.

Political handicapper Charlie Cook said that it was "very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House" in an interview with National Journal late last week.

Cook, who, in the interest of full disclosure, gave the Fix our first job in political Washington, went on to note that while House Republicans have their fair share of problems but "you could triple the Republican Party's problems and I'd still rather have their problems than the problems facing Democrats."

Cook has, of late, been extremely down on Democrats' chances -- an attitude born, he argued in the interview, of "fundamental, total miscalculations from the very, very beginning" by the White House about the direction to take the country. Cook added that the White House's miscalculations in terms of their agenda were "of proportions comparable to President George W. Bush's decision to go into Iraq."

Hmm.  A scenario where the Democrats keep the House.  Cillizza doesn't have an answer either.

Allow me to assist you fine gentelemen.  Ahem.

DEMS PASS THE PUBLIC OPTION.

You're welcome.