Because you too might need another job, and sooner than you think.

What Chris Bowers said:

Who really won this election
When the nation woke up today, it was told that the balance of the Senate rested in two key races: Montana and Virginia. At the same time, the nation was also told that various higher-ups in the Democratic Party were primarily responsible for the huge Democratic victories. What the nation was not told, however, is that the two Senate races that were about to put Democrats over the top [Montana and Virginia] were two of the most people-powered campaigns in the entire country. Both campaigns were driven heavily by small donors, blogs, and volunteer activism for nearly an entire year. Given this, it should be obvious who put Democrats over the top in the Senate: the netroots and the progressive movement. Without either, Democrats would not be about to take control of the Senate.

Even beyond the netroots, however, the people who really decided this election were the voters. The 2006 elections had the highest voter turnout for a mid-term election in the post-civil rights era. Further, while it is difficult for political professionals to admit this, in the end the vast, vast majority of Americans make up their mind on whether to vote, and how to vote, without any outside assistance. News stories, voter targeting, and political organization make a difference, but really that is jus the garnish on the plate. After all, only 10% of the country changed its mind from the 1976 to the 1984 elections, but the latter is still seen as a ground-breaking, coalition-shifting, long-term realignment.

Chris is right.

I can’t speak to the organizational aspect of Webb’s victory, but it’s obvious what first threw Allen visibly off balance:

The Macaca video. Sure, the organization took the video, but the video was instantly propagated over YouTube, and the issue was immediately framed by thousands of us, all with six years of practice honing anti-Republican, pro-Democracy frames. So, that’s down the netroots.

But there’s another, and more important reason by the Dem faction of the Beltway Insiders should sit down and shut up.

We are in the midst of a Constitutional crisis, with an overweening executive that resolutely opposed all forms of Constitutional restraint. They have not changed, they cannot change. (Bush’s latest trainwreck of a presser shows this clearly.)

So, for the most important question we can ask an American poltician today:

What is your plan to restore Constitutional government?

Rahm and the rest of his K-Street scum have no answers at all.