It wasn't that long ago that you couldn't have kept top Democratic Congressional leaders, or gun control activists, from getting in front of a television camera to demand limits on gun ownership and to hyperventilate about the threat that guns pose to children and families.

and:

Ten years ago, a Supreme Court decision that upheld any kind of restriction on abortion rights would have been met with a frenzy of anger and protestation from pro-choice forces both in and out of Congress. There would have been threats directed at judges and politicians, and predictions of the demise of Roe v. Wade.

(yes, Stu, because those dirty unshaven pro-choicers are always threatening violence against judges and politicians, right?  oh, wait, that's pro-lifers) -- and:

we likely will hear more inflammatory comments as presidential hopefuls play to the base (and as Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich tries to impeach people he doesn't like) . . .

and, my favorite, a two-fer:

Speaker Pelosi's trip to Syria and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) comment that "we are losing the war" notwithstanding, Democrats have made few mistakes since they won control of both chambers of Congress in November . . .

Look, I understand the theory that Stu is both an barometer and a prime mover of the Inside-the-Beltway consensus -- and that his public recognition that the Democratic Party is much closer to the median American's political beliefs than is the Republican Party (however many incoherent stumbles he makes in the course of arriving at that conclusion) is therefore a net positive -- but frankly after the past 15 years I'm convinced that the health and survival of American democrary are best served by the utter and complete discrediting of the Beltway Punditocracy (as exemplified by Broder and Rothenberg).

Now the MSM only wants the Entertainment Tonight versions, so all they depict are the Daily Kossacks running amuck trying to run the Democratic Party over a radical cliff (extreme radical cliff if you're watching Phaux).  Republicans are protrayed as genial fatherly figures only concerned with their charges welfare. (which is true if you consider the leaders only consider a portion of the top 1% of the economic ladder their charges).