The Democrats didn't misread anything in 2008

Can we please dispense of the notion that Democrats "misread the electoral results of 2008?"

The Democrats didn't misread anything. They lied to the American people, hid their ideological leftism to amass supermajorities, and decided to go for broke while they could.

The Democrats' strategic failure was in going for broke, which, unsurprising to students of Newton's law of action and reaction, prompted the rise of the TEA Parties. Democrats could've had it all if they hadn't ripped their mask off right after the elections. Sadly for them, instead of fashioning a bipartisan stimulus bill that would've provided them future cover for their Marxist shenanigans they decided to ram through the first of many overtly socialist pieces of "legislation" cobbled together through bribery and extortion.

Despite all of that, the Democrat majority's ideological predisposition was known to anyone who can open their eyes and see. Obama spent his entire life around Marxist and communist radicals. Pelosi represents San Francisco, bastion of lawlessness and left-wing lunacy. Harry Reid is, well, Harry Reid: scumbag.

We're forced to endure historical revisionism by the left on virtually everything: the Constitution; the Founders; our Judeo-Christian philosophical foundation; the "separation of church and state". And so on. Let's not add to the abuse of truth by suggesting the Democrats misread anything. They knew exactly what the voters wanted.

And they stuck their collective middle finger up at all of us.