How do these guys manage to run a campaign, let alone the country, with their foot always planted firmly in their mouths? First, second, third, and fourth (etc.) it was Coakley, now it’s Van Hollen’s turn. Hollen, chairman of he Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, had this to say about how the Republicans shouldn’t be handed the keys to the Cadillac, er, I mean, the House, just after he said that it was “pure hallucination” to think that Scott Brown might beat Martha Coakley in the contest to see who will succeed Teddy Kennedy as the new senator from Massachusettes:

“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” Van Hollen said. “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, I don’t think it’s a winner.”

Okay, so Chappaquiddick isn’t a ditch.