Hardly a day passes without a Republican braying about the cowardly Democrats in Congress fleeing expected electoral disaster.

Small point: The number of House Republicans who have announced retirement now stands at 18, against 12 Democrats. That’s from the reality-based world of arithmetic, not held in high regard on the GOP side.

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