Unemployment remains at 9.7 percent, foreclosures are up sharply, most states are facing gargantuan budget crises, gas is hitting $3 a gallon, companies are announcing massive financial hits from a health-care bill that may have been so poorly written it eliminated coverage for Congress, and Americans are surprised and horrified that a celebrity biker with groupies cheated on America’s sweetheart.

Who’s happy with our current state of affairs? About half of all Democrats!

Gallup informs us that 49 percent of all Democrats are “satisfied with the way things are going in the United States,” compared to 23 percent of independents and 10 percent of Republicans.

I wonder if this is the soft bigotry of low expectations.