Yesterday’s loser in NY 23, Doug Hoffman, is in for a hard time as a Republican?

Hoffman’s candidacy generated much talk of a civil war in the GOP. Ironically, it is [the winner, Bill] Owens who is about to learn firsthand what it’s like to belong to a majority that brooks no dissent.

That’s Stephen Spruiell at National Review Online, who has more:

When Blue Dogs voiced their concerns over the speed at which Pelosi was attempting to ram the health-care overhaul through the House, their fellow Democrats responded with contemptuous sneers.

Rep. Maxine Waters, the liberal lawmaker from California, criticized Rahm Emanuel’s strategy of recruiting conservative Democrats to run in right-leaning districts, saying that Emanuel’s “chickens have come home to roost.” Former DNC chief Howard Dean warned of primary challenges for Blue Dogs if they didn’t support the public option.

And those will be his seatmates and/or fellows in politics between now and the next election in less than a year?