House Democrats carried Pres. Obama’s senseless economic agenda and now face an almost certain bloodbath in the midterm elections. And the White House is, um, otherwise occupied.

“One House Democrat compared their relationship with the White House to the 1970s Life commercials starring ‘Mikey,’ the kid whose brothers trick him into eating the cereal,” The Washington Post reported in a must-read story today about the dysfunctional Dems in D.C. “‘And now, Mikey ate it and he’s choking on it, and there’s no appreciation.’”

Correction, us taxpayers enduring this charade are choking on it: on the overreach, on the arrogance, on the massive legislative logjams on health care, financial services and energy policy while both the national debt and the unemployment rate march on. In Colorado, U.S. Reps. Betsy Markey, Ed Perlmutter and John Salazar (not to mention appointed U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet) must wonder what was in that Obama bowl they so eagerly scarfed down.

At least when Mikey ate the cereal (see the video above) he got fed; not fed to the wolves.