REALITY STRIKES THE ‘REALITY-BASED’ COMMUNITY.

[White House senior advisor David] Axelrod said he accepts some blame for what he called “communication failures,” though he acknowledges bafflement that the administration’s efforts to stimulate the economy in a crisis, overhaul health care and prosecute two wars have been so routinely framed by opponents as the handiwork of a big-government, soft-on-terrorism, politics-of-the-past ideologue.

Um, perhaps it’s because the administration’s efforts are the handiwork of a big-government, soft-on-terrorism, politics-of-the-past ideology?