The Czar likes Daniel Foster, and would not only welcome him to the Castle, but would even allow him to leave intact.

However, Mr. Foster reports on a short-sided study that reveals, après le weekend, that if the November elections were held tomorrow, the Democrats would be crushed in a landslide.

Unfortunately, the source only meant that figuratively.

But the problem with this thinking is multi-fold:

1. The elections are held, naturally, in November, and not tomorrow. The Democrats are dead wrong in treating us as stupid; but give us enough time, and our hatred seeps away and we get a little more forgiving. November could easily seem like next year for all the time that will elapse.

2. This is over-estimating the Republican response. This weekend showed the Republicans that the nation has called: and believe the Czar, the GOP is ready to galvanize, unify, and solidify what will surely be a totally lukewarm response. If it were the Czar, and not Michael Steele, the head of the GOP would be capitalizing on this weekend with an onslaught of press releases, public statements, Youtube videos, pop talk show junkets, MTV counter ads, and viral media recounting everything that the troika of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama have done to hide, bully, shortcut, circumvent, sneak, twist, lie, and distort the entire process. Instead of banging the healthcare drum in a sonorous but monotonous solo, take advantage of the room full of complete drumsets they just handed you. Everyone running for office—and many of those who are not—need to become Ginger Baker and crash the Zildjians in some 45-minute Cream solo. Instead, we might get Tim Pawlenty doing a zither arrangement of “Polly Wolly Doodle.”

3. As Healthcare Deform kicks in, little by little, expect to see Obama et al. bump up in the polls. Why, right on schedule!

4. As Immigration comes up, expect to see a pointedly bipartisan effort begin. As the Czar commented to the Mandarin on Monday, Democrats are arguing to reform immigration but not provide general amnesty; the Republicans are arguing for no general amnesty, but admit there is a need to reform immigration. How far apart do you think these two sides are? As a result, Democrats will play that up, enlisting Hollywood and the Half-Brain army, and the Democrats will see a bump in popularity. And what do you know, a seven-point crest. Still in the crapper, but you see the result here.

We have a really, really, really long way to go, and so far only the Democrats are capitalizing on the time.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.