Jay Carney says it will not be a good year for Democrats in the election

Jay Carney appeared on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ this morning and he reiterated what seems to be the prevailing logic of political prognosticators at this time–the 2014 midterm elections are not going to go well for the Democrats.

Here is part of what he had to say:

It’s not going to be a good year for Democrats by definition,” Carney said. “The sixth year is always particularly bad for a president’s party. You couple that with the fact so many seats are defended by Democrats in red states where Mitt Romney did very well against the president, double-digits in most cases, and there’s no outcome in November that anybody could say would be great for Democrats except for barely holding onto the Senate

Historically he is correct and this should be a bad year for Democratic incumbents, and normally I would agree with his assessment, however he fails to take into consideration the ineptitude of the Republicans in the Congress, or the fact they are bereft of any real leadership.

He also fails to consider the fact that what little leadership the establishment Republicans in Washington do have is more focused on defeating the conservative faction of the party than in stopping the President from implementing his agenda. They put on a good show but that is all it is. Need I mention the Hegelian Dialectic once again…

I predict the Republicans will keep control of the House but will fall short of gaining control of the Senate so nothing will change. But even if the Republicans do not shoot themselves in the foot once again and do manage to take the Senate we will still have two things to consider.

First; the lame duck Congress. With nothing left to lose they will quickly try to move to pass Barack Obama’s agenda before they leave office and there will basically be nothing we can do to stop them. And second; we have already seen that Barack Obama is more than willing to move around the Congress to implement his agenda through Executive Orders and bureaucratic regulations. Why would we expect it to be any different once the American people have spoken?

What difference, at this point, does it make? The American people had the chance to stop Barack Obama in 2012 but instead he was reelected and now we are all about to reap what we have sown. The rest is all just political theater designed to make us feel as if we have a choice in the matter…