Looks like Democrats in 2010 are pulling a page out of Harry Reid and Gray Davis’s playbook: campaign on the theme that Republicans are meanies.
Instead of running on their record, they’re running against the supposedly impotent opposition party (always accusing it of obstructionism). With such whining as their mantra, William Krisol wonders whether or not the left has collapsed:
The “f*ck tea” movement—that’s what the left has come to. They can’t defend the results of Obama’s policies or the validity of Krugman’s arguments. They know it’s hard to sustain an antidemocratic ethos in a democracy. They realize they’ve degenerated into pro-am levels of whining and squabbling. So they curse their opponents.
Read the whole thing. Via Glenn Reynolds who, recalling one of the great moments in cinema, warns Republicans not to get cocky. Even the Washington Post has taken notice, headlining an article yesterday, Desperate Democrats pin their hopes on scary Republicans.
I was wondering this morning what will happen if the Obamaniacs try to rerun the same 2008 campaign in 2012. Even if they can reproduce those massive cheering stadia chanting ‘Yes We Can!’ it’s going to ring differently after four years of recession, deficits, and bumbling.
When you reach bottom, you take the asterisk out of the four letter word. These people do not have enough integrity to curse without cowardice. The asterisk supposedly provides a bit of cover, but in fact, it exposes simpletons who are too clever by half.
The Democrats have stirred up the races, addicted people to the dole, torn down the values system, cheated and lied and spent us into national bankruptcy. The only thing left for them to do is give up the sham of representative democracy and declare the permanent nanny state.
Unfortunately for them, they lack the unity and dedication to seizing permanent power. You can not teeter on the brink of fundamental transformation. You either get it done or you get pulled down by the riff raff you were transforming.
Meanwhile, the guerilla force of fundamental transformers show up in T-shirts with asterisks and throw rocks through everybody’s windows.
The Left has exposed their true Communist faces with the faces of President Obama & his Inner Circle such as Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, & the arrogant, pompous fool named Valerie Jarrett along with their co-conspirators, Rep, Nancy Pelosi & Senator Harry Reid. The Left has collapsed because the people have risen up against the Democrats Marxist legislation; as a result, the Democrats are in disarray & fighting among themselves as the tensions split them asunder. Democrat is & will be a dirty word.
Yes, Republicans are doing everything they can to obstruct the Democrats and Obama on every measure. However, with a 60 seat majority in the Senate, a wide lead in the House, and with the approval ratings as high as Obama’s were when he took office, the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for how little they’ve gotten accomplished and how little popular support they retain. The fact of the matter is that Democrats don’t want to pass meaningful reform any more than the Republicans do, so they don’t. The same corporate interests that the Republicans are beholden to are also pulling Obama’s and the Democrats’ strings.
As it stands, both parties are terrible on policy (Democrats only have the slightest edge on that score), and only the Republicans are good at politics. The Democrats are uninspiring, bumbling marks that don’t understand their greatest strengths and fall for the same Republican traps over and over again.
I am trying to get the message here: “meaningful reform” vs. “corporate interests.”
Is this a cry for state socialism? Communism? A micro-managed market? Guaranteed housing, healthcare, clothing, food, recreation, trinkets as a common right provided by redistribution by the government? What is “meaningful reform” anyway?
Churchill once chewed out an aide the said “meaningful.” He asked the poor fellow what “meaningful” meant. Is it something full of meaning, however I don’t know what is it, but I will know it when I see it?
Corporate interests usually involve meeting payroll, producing a salable good or service, avoiding costly litigation, competing and staying viable and making a profit. Which of these “interests” needs “meaningful reform”?
Now this is funny, even for Levi:
Now imagine if someone had said: “It shouldn’t be too hard to recognize that the best way for our democracy to work is to have a competitive private sector working cooperatively with an organized public sector.” It would be the height of absurdity for the same person to argue both sides.
Oh, wait.
A return to Obama 2008 nostalgia will not bring home the bacon from the Democrats in the November midterms; Obama & the Democrats will be more disconnected, out-of-touch, elitists battling the President Bush bogeyman when the real people will wonder why the Democrats are not talking about battling unemployment & private job atrophy. I dare the Democrats to talk about ObamaCare, Crap & Tax, the Dodd-Frank Bailout Bank law, & the Student Loan program.
Politically, the Democrats will just get dirty stares, tomatoes, & demands for their justification for their Marxist votes. They cannot campaign & hide under their desks simultaneously, although they will try.