A Boston Globe columnist compares Barrack to Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson.

I don’t think even the most myopic, die-hard Bush supporter would compare the President, or any Republican officeholder these days, to someone like a Jefferson.  Or even an Alexander Hamilton (though the President does take a more Hamiltonian approach to government than Jeffersonian).

But as laughable as those comparisons are, this is the best line of the whole op/ed:

The Bush administration has collapsed on so many fronts that Republican officeholders up for re election will be torn between saving their own necks and remaining loyal to the hard-core base. Eight or nine Republican Senate seats could be at risk.

Right.  Because it’s not like the economy is booming, the federal deficit is shrinking and unemployment has collapsed and remained low.

And let’s not forget that the Dems picked up a lot of low-hanging fruit in the last election.  Were it not for the GOP’s departure from small government, low tax, low spending principles (with some scandal and corruption mixed in) the Dems wouldn’t be in power right now.