If it is a Sunday after a

setback for the democrats then it is time for one of Joanie Vennochi's patented "death of liberalism" columns.

This time she has decided to throw the entire Kennedy family into the cauldron and weep crocodile tears about the "sundown of a dream", such rubbish.

I think she has written some two dozen other columns along the exact same lines since Bush seized power in 2001.

Joanie perfectly exemplifies the columnista dogma that proclaims that when liberals win it is an accidental aberration, when conservatives rally it is the leading edge of the inevitable historic backlash...One that will crush all liberals like insects.

In other words, nothing new from Joanie, the usual personality driven snarkage and defeatism, and tomorrow she'll go on the Jeff Santos show and make nicey nice because Joanie wants a radio berth of her own someday.

Same old same old.