IN THE MAIL: The new book by Jerome Armstrong and Kos, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics. Obviously I don’t think that it will help the Democratic Party to move in the DailyKos direction (though that’s not quite what the book advocates), but the book’s thesis that the Democratic establishment has gotten out of touch with actual Democrats seems hard to dispute.

Republicans should be worried that the GOP, now that it’s in power, seems to be displaying some of the same problems.

UPDATE: Reader Raymond Sauer emails: “Seems?”