The Democratic shoot-out in the lifeboats has begun.

Now usually when one political party loses a presidential election, both branches of Congress and a majority of governorships, a little soul-searching and a perhaps an “autopsy” are in order.

But not so for the Democratic Party these days, whose officials are still searching about for scapegoats.

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Hillary Clinton told a group of donors Thursday the Russian hack attacks on the Democratic National Committee were ordered by Vladimir V. Putin “because he has a personal beef against me.”

Clinton campaign manager John Podesta took to the op-ed page of The Washington Post yesterday to demand “a robust, independent investigation into what went wrong inside the government [emphasis ours] and how to better protect our country in the future.”

Yes, Clinton’s loss was apparently FBI Director Jim Comey’s fault. Podesta also blames the FBI for not being more proactive in warning the DNC about the hacking, putting a rather unique spin on the fact that the DNC kept referring an actual FBI agent to its technology “help desk” as The New York Times reported this week.

And then to weave a little conspiracy in he writes, “What about evidence that [Republican operative] Roger Stone was in contact with WikiLeaks and knew in advance that my hacked emails were about to be leaked?”

Of course, the Times already reported that Podesta’s emails were hacked because his own tech guru told him a phishing email looked “legitimate” when he meant to write “illegitimate.” Besides, Podesta’s emails were of interest only to political junkies.

Yesterday President Obama berated the news media for reporting “every little juicy tidbit of gossip” from the DNC and Podesta emails. “This was an obsession that clearly dominated the news.”

OK, so let’s blame Putin, the FBI, and the media. Surely Hillary Clinton’s loss had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. Well, whatever it takes for you folks to look at yourselves in the mirror.