I'm becoming increasingly convinced that talk of 2016 is designed to distract from 2014

[longship]

16. Start working on 2014!!! That's what.

Unless we turn Congress around, there may be no Democratic presidential win in 2016. Midterm elections can have huge consequences, much more than winning the White House. Of course we want both, but the last three years will tell you what losing a midterm election can do. It is not pretty unless you actually want gridlock, or you like being able to scream about the evil Republican majority in Congress.

I cannot buy into either of those goals.

And the Republican Party is seriously crazy, and seriously well funded. We ignore 2014 at our peril. We distract from it at our peril.

2016 will come when it arrives. Two years from now we will all have those discussions with great passion, probably a few months prior. But until then, it is just like fantasy football.