AND THE ALTERNATIVE IS EVEN WORSE:

Hillary’s hegemony helps GOP (Mark Mellman, 3/15/06, The Hill)

Democrats will spend much of this midterm election year “finding their voice,” as liberal Democratic activists are fond of saying.

As I argued in this space last week, the possibility that some über-liberals might suddenly rise up and scare America with their rhetoric is a major reason that Democrats seem poised to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But it’s not the only reason.

Hillary Clinton’s imperious control over her party’s presidential politics will also become a stumbling block to the Democrats’ prospects for recapturing control of either house of Congress this November. [...]

Ms. Clinton’s glittering favorable ratings among Democrats, even liberal ones, make it altogether a slam-dunk. Eighty percent of all Democrats and 86 percent of liberal Democrats hold favorable impressions of Her Highness.

All you have to know about Democrats' prospects for power is that the only challenge to Ms Clinton is from the Left.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 15, 2006 12:19 PM