The first line in Jim Geraghty’s “Morning Jolt” e-mail newsletter was a winner:

How bad is it for Ciro Rodriguez? Bob Etheridge is telling him to calm down.

If you hadn’t heard, Rodriguez is the Texas Democratic congressman who lost his temper at a town meeting over the weekend. Here’s the video:

As for Etheridge, here’s the viral video of the North Carolina Democrat losing his cool on the streets of Washington when asked a simple question:

As one blogger said yesterday (sorry, but can’t remember which), what these videos show is panic at the prospect of trying to survive November defending the Obama agenda.