"[V]oters realize that there is only one party who bailed out the automakers and insurance companies, forced a failed stimulus debacle through Congress, advocated for an energy tax, and attempted to take over America's health care system," says a memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the wake of Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts. As Ben Smith points out, "It may have been a long time ago, but President Bush did preside over the auto and AIG bailouts." But, really, why get tangled up in details?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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This will be interesting because the RNC will think that Brown won because of something they're doing right. They're wrong.
It's kind of fun to be an independent right now.
If there is a silver lining in this loss, it will be that the President and the Democratic leadership will spend the next 10 months focused on what will get them re-elected.
In Congress, the equipoise fulcrum will shift over from Leiberman or Nelson to Snowe or that other Maine Senator. Not sure that will actually make a huge difference.
Yes, but often what the Democratic leadership concludes it needs to get elected is to march their policy positions as close to the Republicans as possible without passing them with the assumption that everyone to the left of the John Birch Society will want to vote for them then. Methinks, as in the past, this will not work.
I too am bewildered by the Democratic Party's appalling symbiosis of propping up greedy corporations while destroying Capitalism.
It is high time to eradicate this hypocracy and return to the policies of a party that will protect the wealth of those who understand how to keep it to themselves.
Can we just refer to both of them as The Know-Nothings at this point?