And you thought Democrats were good at circular firing squads. The results weren’t all in before every Republican who ever thought this was a bad idea — which means most of them — started apportioning blame for screwing the unscrewable pooch.
Their prime target was disheveled svengali Steve Bannon, who just 24 hours earlier was being hailed as a magician (David Cop-a-feel, maybe?) for engineering the greatest comeback since Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Now, Mitch McConnell’s allies are crowing that Bannon is dead, which I’ll believe only when I see the remains of his broomstick. Bannon crony Sean Hannity blames McConnell. It’s a party full of people who crave credit without accepting responsibility.
It wasn’t easy for the Republicans to screw up the Alabama special election. In fact, as Alex Burns of the New York Times pointed out in this election day tweet storm, it required an entire series of poor responses to circumstances on the ground, starting with the choice of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.
More from Twitter: Check out the results of these special elections in the Trump era and see if you notice a trend. The deplorables win only when the deplorers stay home.
All this winning has Democrats fired up — so fired up that they found candidates to run in all 36 Congressional districts in Texas. In 2016, eight Republicans ran unopposed.
On a non-election note, here’s an example of the high cost of homelessness to the rest of us: One of the wildfires in the Los Angeles area has been traced to a homeless camp where people were, in officials’ words, “illegally cooking.”