It was conventional wisdom in the Winter of 2009 that the Republican Party was deeply wounded, and may require several election cycles to redeem itself. By the Fall of 2009, that conventional wisdom has been turned on its head – largely by Democratic incompetence, from the White House down on to the State Houses. The Democrats early on began to distance themselves from the policies they had ran on that gave them the Presidency, the Congress, the Senate and the most number of State Houses in the first place. Right out of the gate, the President was compromising even before having a conversation with those he needed to compromise with. Bipartisanship became the White House mantra – as members of the President’s inner cycle focused on 2012 instead of 2010. But after the 2010 routing, which Mr. Obama self described as a “shellacking”, the road to 2012 just became more difficult, if not mission impossible – At least so says the conventional wisdom. Speaker Nancy Pelosi came down as one of ...