And yes, this applies to politics as well.
Motivated by WheninRome's comment in Joan McCarter's most excellent observations on the disarray of the congressional GOP, I thought that I'd expand on this theme.
The Republicans are reeling - not everywhere, but in enough places. They have rebellious Tea Partiers in the House, lunatic State Senators and Representatives making the news for all the wrong reasons, and now they can't even control the political process in the one of the States that're supposed to be Republican strongholds: Texas.
Which brings me to WheninRome's comment: kick them while they're down. The Republicans, every day and every way, are showing themselves to be utter nincompoops - incapable of and uninterested in governing, only in grabbing power.
The Democrats need to kick the Republicans, hard and in ways the media can't ignore.
- Offer commonsense amendments in the House - ones that can be explained in 5-second soundbytes.
- Find more courageous people like Wendy Davis (may she run for and win the Governor's mansion next year).
- Reform the Senate.
- Hold peaceful demonstrations outside the Koch subsidiary GOP-majority statehouses.
Rub the Republican Party's combination of stupid and fundamentalist so hard into the media's faces that even they can't ignore it any more - and will look like the 1% stooges they are if they try to, even to low-information voters.
When your enemy is in disarray and reeling is not the time to be a gentleman; it's the time to kick him in the 'nads and then stomp his face when he's down.
It's time for the Democratic Party to start playing offense. Make the bastards sweat.