Over at Power Line, one of my favorite blogs for which I just cut a podcast, Steven Hayward notices that the liberal columnist E. J. Dionne, in Steve’s words, “gets one right.” Dionne starts off by admitting that the 2014 Republican landslide was, from his and other Democrats’ point of view, worse than the 2010 Republican landslide. And he notes that Republicans made gains in large part because of the perception of “incompetent government.”

Then Dionne goes on muse that the Republicans might, heeding leaders like Sen. Ted Cruz, go too far to the right to suit most voters and notes that the presidential electorate is less conservative than the off-year electorate — which is usually true (though not in 2006), but which is of only marginal importance, as you can gather by crunching some exit poll numbers. Similarly, my American Enterprise Institute colleague Norman Ornstein warns, quite wrongly in my view, that Republicans can be goaded into bringing impeachment proceedings against President Obama.