Eleanor Clift thinks so, but that seems bloody unlikely what with liberals getting approval numbers like these.

I mean, the Democrat Senate Majority Leader has an approval rating of 19%.  Half of Dick Cheney’s, which is at 38%.  The Democrat Speaker of the House is at just 36%, and the approval rating of Congress in general is lower than it has been in a decade.

So pardon me if Clift’s assertions make me giggle a bit.  As do all assertions about the 2006 elections which put Democrats in charge of Congress being evidence of an American turn toward liberalism.

Don’t believe me?  Follow along.  In 1994 Republicans were swept into majorities in Congress that would last for 12 years.  Toward the end of that 12 years Republicans began to abandon the “limited government” principles that brought them into office and in 2006 they were booted from the majority.  Yet the replacement Democrats have very low approval numbers, and most Americans see this Congress as little better than the one before it.

So what’s the only conclusion to draw from this review of the facts?  That Republicans lost the election, Democrats didn’t win it.  And 2008 is hardly the “year of the liberal” because liberalism is exactly what Americans don’t want.