If somebody doesn't step up, the Democrats will have squandered everything.

[BuyingThyme]

Pelosi and Reid are done as leaders. The damage they've done to our party and or to our politics is beyond anything anybody could have anticipated.

We, the voters gave the Democrats an opportunity to neuter a lame-duck president, but they instead managed to create a lame-duck Congress. It's truly an amazing feat. Think about how far they've fallen in such a short timespan. They traded war for wage.

But here's the good news: There's a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, HUGE leadership vacuum and, at the same time, there's a bunch of qualified Democratic presidential candidates looking for an opportunity to lead (and at least one more may be on the way). The country is absolutely starving for one good person to stand up, take chances, and kick the shit around.

But to pull it off, this person is going to have to kick that shit in the faces of Pelosi and Reid. And the great thing about this reality is that the Republican presidential candidates do not have a similar opportunity. No matter where they kick their shit, it's going to blow back in their faces.

It's okay for a Democrat to challenge Pelosi and Reid, isn't it? That's what leadership is all about, right?