By Wesley Pruden

This is Disorientation Week in Washington. From the White House to the Hill, the Democrats are trying (but not trying too hard) to come to terms with a new reality. Attitude-adjustment hour is sometimes no fun at all.

Vice President Joe Biden, who suffers terminal hoof-in-mouth disease, thinks the tea party folks are “terrorists,” though the next day he said he didn’t really say what everybody else in the room heard him say. Barack Obama, weary of trying to explain away good ol’ Joe’s frequent civility lapses, seems to be losing patience with his man for all rainy seasons.

When a reporter asked the presidential press flack whether Mr. Obama thinks calling Americans who disagree with him “terrorists” is “appropriate,” the flack replied: “No, he doesn’t, and neither does the vice president. … Any kind of comments like that are simply not conducive to the kind of political discourse that we hope to have.” . .

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