There’s something strange going on…

Recall that at the height of the health reform fight, after Senator Brown was elected in MA and the Democrats looked like they were on the verge of total failure. It looked like Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement would indeed be his Waterloo… and then, Anthem Blue Cross raised rates by 40%.

On the verge of the financial reform fight, Goldman Sachs was sued by the FEC and grilled mercilessly by a bipartisan Senate committee for it’s shenanigans of knowingly selling “sh$%ty” securities to customers and profiting from their failure.

The next big fight is immigration reform, and Arizona passes a draconian law essentially legalizing racial profiling of its Hispanic population – soon to be a majority. (It also revealed the Tea Party to be hypocrites when it comes to big government and Constitutional fidelity).

And of course, with the climate bill coming down the line, we have a gargantuan oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is shaping up to be the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez. (UPDATE: Obama just banned all further offshore drilling until an investigation concludes)

Let’s even throw in the observation that President Obama is about to select a new justice for the Supreme Court – mere months after the universally reviled Citizens United case opened the floodgates to infinite corporate money over our elections.

Notice any pattern?

If I were Glenn Beck, these dots would now duly be connected by a conspiracy theory line of outlandish proportion. But I think that it’s really more likely that the convergence of reality with policy and reform is a “happy” coincidence – though of course these disasters all have real tragic consequences for ordinary people caught in the middle of them. It would be better if these tragic events could have been prevented, but by occurring, they demonstrate the lack of any preventative mechanism. And thus make the case for the reforms in President Obama’s domestic agenda far more forcefully than any speech or campaign ad.

Let’s just hope that the pattern doesn’t hold when it’s time to ratify the new START treaty.