Now This Is Spin!

With the news of TrouserGate becoming the focus of Congressional Hearings, I expected the whining on the left to be along the lines of, "The timing shows this is politically motivated," or "It's all a part of the VRWC." But I didn't expect this from Josh Marshall:

There's no doubt this Berger imbroglio has thrown the Dems seriously off message for a couple days. And it's embarrassing. There's no denying it. But Hastert's words are those of folks who are desperate -- real desperate. Folks looking at November 2nd, not liking at all what they see, and casting about for anything that will change the political lay of the land.

It's cornered, wounded animal time.

A cornered, wounded animal? Granted, polls change and are mostly inaccurate, but a cornered, wounded animal would be 10-15 points down before the opposition's convention. A cornered, wounded animal would be farther behind after the announcment of the opposition's veep candidate. Instead, Kerry is in a statistical tie with the President. The President's job approval rating is 53% today at Rasmussen. Edwards has provided only a dead cat bounce.

Is Josh just projecting?