As the Democratic party’s hopes ended about five minutes after the polls had closed, with the networks calling Kentucky for Mitch McConnell, so went the Chicago Bears’ fortunes, Sunday night, on the Green Bay Packer’s first possession. The Bears went down about as ignominiously, and quickly, as the Democrats. The final score was 55-14 and, as they say, in Sportsland, “It wasn’t that close.” If Aaron Rodgers and the Packers’ coaches were sadists, they could have hung 80 on the Bears. Where have you gone, Dick Butkus … Mike Singletary … Brian Urlacher?
The Bears are supposed to have defense in their DNA. It comes from the famously tough environment. Their reputation for playing hard-nosed D is as lofty as that of the Democrats for managing the “ground game.” This November, they are both in ruins. Packers receivers and Republican candidates ran wild. If there were a Republican party version of the Lambeau Leap, then the some spectator in the end zone seats at the GOP’s Calvin Coolidge Coliseum would have had Joni Ernst, her cheekbones smeared with eyeblack, sitting in his lap.
The Obama machine was supposed to have absorbed all that famous Chicago toughness and ruthlessness. Looks, instead, like they have gone to the Bears for inspiration.
As the Bears have given up more than 50 points in three of their last 11 games, the Democrats now occupy fewer seats in the House of Representatives than at any time since Hoover was President and football players wore leather helmets.
The Bears probably won’t be hiring a new coach right away. He has two years left on his contract (coincidence?) and since he is plainly a lame duck, if he were to fire his defensive coordinator, then he wouldn’t be able to attract anyone of real skill and substance to take the position. So the Bears will, most likely, continue to flounder under the same, failed coaching staff.
And the Democrats will be trusting their fate to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the head guy in the White House.
It’s the new Chicago way.
