You Know You're In Deep Trouble When....(Results of NY 09 By-Election)

when...the New York City district that gave us Geraldine Ferraro and Anthony TheWeiner votes 54-46 to elect a moderately conservative GOP candidate.

The district, artfully gerrymandered for perpetual Democrat control, includes portions of both Brooklyn and Queens. In Brooklyn , it wasn't even close, 67/33, although there were many fewer votes at stake there. In Queens, Bob Turner lost by 51/48, (1472 vote margin as of this morning), but to even come that close on what has been a Democrat planation since 1923 was historic. All those Queens voters helped put him over the top. They gotta be passing the antacids around the morning staff meetings in the White House, and in MizNancy and MissahHarry's offices over on Capitol Hill. That's a lot of New York votes gone in 2012, and the GOP and Conservative Parties of New York now smell blood in the water. Who knows, maybe they retire a bunch of the machine Democrats all at once next year.

Turner is a native of the district, has lived there his entire life, a successful businessman, who has created significant wealth and a lot of jobs in his years. Just the kind of guy Obama and company love to hate. He's no Tea Party person, no wild-eyed guy wearing a George Washington costume at a rally. He's a sober adult, unlike the previous occupant of that district's seat.

Congrats to Mr. Turner, and to the folks in NY 09. As OS repeats, we need sober grownups who can do math and speak plain English in the years ahead. It's not going to be easy, even with the grownups in charge.

A view from Tim Stanley, across the pond. You know you're deep in ka-ka when a normally small event like this pops up on the world's radar.

In Normal Times, A Democrat President Would Be Campaigning In NY 09 Today...

...but these are not normal times.

Anthony TheWeiner was a stalwart warrior of the Left, and of all things Obama. His (polite cough) very public downfall would not normally deter a President like Obama from sending in his operatives, and making a last-minute public appearance on behalf of the Democrat standing for election.

It's like...well...they're pretending this by-election isn't taking place today. And Welprin, the Democrat candidate, is pretending Obama doesn't exist. Like the last thing he'd want is a visit from The Beloved Leader on the eve of the election. Not normal times.

Obama was in Ohio, getting a crowd of high-school students and teachers to chant 'Pass this bill! Pass this bill!' Only MSNBC, all-Obama-all-the-time, even bothered to carry the event live. CNN was discussing fashion trends. This morning, his staff was blustering 'It's all or nothing!', and by the afternoon the view was, 'Well, if they want to pass it piecemeal, he'll sign the portions they send his way.'

Not normal times, not at all. NY 09 may well fall into GOP hands tonight. OS will be interested to see if the White House even makes mention of the occurrence in the morning.