Craziest Republican of the Day: Eric Cantor

By Michael J.W. Stickings

For suggesting that the GOP might just win back the House in 2010 -- which would mean a landslide, a net gain of at least 40 seats.

Maybe he's just being optimistic, trying to inject some positive thinking into a party consumed by depression (and rage, much of it directed internally), but I'd say it's just as likely he's completely delusional, so enamored is he of his party's extremist ideology, and so convinced of his party's, and his own, righteousness.

Democrats should certainly not take the 2010 elections lightly, not with so many of them elected from swing districts, if not from solidly conservative ones, but it's hard to imagine a landslide for a party that is completely out of ideas, and out of touch, at a time of historic economic crisis and uncertainty, a party that simply regurgitates more of the same old failed policies at a time when more of the same is not just not good enough but counter-productive and downright dangerous.

Americans want progressive action on the economy, on energy and the environment, and on health care. They want a new approach to foreign policy and national security. They voted for change in '06, and again last year, and it's change that Obama and the Democrats offer. Cantor's free to wallow in his own delusions, but, back in the real world, Republicans are still losers.