The Washington Post is running with a piece that liberals should take some real pleasure from. The author is that rarest of creatures, a New York City republican; might as well be a drag queen at the RNC.

[...] I was just starting to rejoin the general population and eat solid foods again. And now I must brace myself for Tuesday, when all of Washington, the country -- the world! -- boogies down in honor of the man I was absolutely certain would be a mere momentary distraction...

[...] I run with an eclectic crowd in New York, and not surprisingly, most of my friends are Democrats. There are, after all, more registered Democrats in New York City than there are people in Vermont, North Dakota, Wyoming and Alaska combined. (There are more cats than registered Republicans in New York City. Four times more. I've done the math.) While some of my liberal friends are too preoccupied with repairing their dwindling 401(k)s to care much about getting to Washington for the inauguration, others are planning their own soirees here in the city, and others still are planning their pilgrimages to the capital city.

Okay, fine; consider your pain felt. Unity!

But what's missing here, and in similar pieces that have run across the traditional media for weeks - there's nothing that conservatives like to write about more than themselves - is any recognition that it wasn't just Obama's charisma that gave us this moment. The wholesale failure of "conservative governance" - that was the problem, friends.