There are a few diaries going around that seem to be confusing the messengers with the murderers. Instead of admitting that the scenarios the messengers tried repeatedly to warn everyone against have indeed come true, the diarists and their fans want to pretend that a few bloggers have the power to make tens of millions of 2008 Obama voters stay home or vote for the pachyderms this year.
We're seen this movie before.
When Martha Coakley pollster Celinda Lake said that being forced to back the Baucus-WellPoint health care bill is what helped drop her client over twenty points in the space of a month and dooming her to defeat against Scott Brown, she and Coakley were mocked as crybabies looking to explain away bad campaigning -- even though DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen agreed with her. She has now been vindicated as one of the first people trying to warn the Democrats on Capitol Hill what would happen to them if they backed this tremendously unpopular piece of legislation.
When around that same time Fire Dog Lake commissioned four polls in the OH-01,AR-02, IN-02, and NY-01 congressional districts, the results showed the Democratic incumbents losing to their Republican opponents. The polling was widely denounced as inaccurate by the D-Trip (apparently Chris Van Hollen needed to atone for having told the truth about the HCR bill dragging down Coakley), even though it must have matched up well with the DCCC's own internal polling (which it still refuses to release in a complete form), as AR-02's Vic Snyder abruptly retired rather than face a brutal re-election campaign. (Didn't matter; his Democratic replacement, Joyce Elliot, stil got creamed.)
We tried, repeatedly, to warn Obama and the Congressional Democrats that they were making a dangerous mistake. All we got for it was the backs of their hands as they continued chugging their merry way to the cliff. Now a few apologist types want to rewrite history.
Sorry, but that Blue Dog won't hunt.