Posted on 08/25/2010 10:36:43 PM PDT by Schnucki
Influential Washington news site Politico has a major piece this morning revealing mounting fears among leading Democrats over worsening prospects for retaining control of the House of Representatives in this November’s mid-terms. According to Politico:
Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.
In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks.
They no longer believe the jobs and housing markets will recover – or that anything resembling the White House’s promise of a “recovery summer” is under way.
The Politico piece also points out that “in two close races, endangered Democrats are even running ads touting how they oppose their leadership”, and cites a Democrat pollster as saying “the reality is that (the House majority) is probably gone.”
The defeatism on the Left strikingly highlighted in this piece is the culmination of a disastrous summer of discontent for the White House, where the president’s approval ratings have plummeted against a backdrop of relentlessly bad economic news, a virtual civil war within the ruling liberal elites, and the impressive rise of the anti-establishment Tea Party movement . As I’ve written previously, we’ve witnessed the most stunning and rapid political decline for a US president in recent American history.
Despite a mammoth economic stimulus package, US unemployment hovers around the ten percent mark, the housing market remains in a deep slump, and consumer confidence is stubbornly low. At the same time President Obama has
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O is the TITANIC in real terms!
I hope Republicans do well in November
if so, part if the reason is that
Bush is gone
OK...but it’s done. It’s over...MOVE ON.
You insult all the people around this Country who are working everyday to change things. HE’S ONE PERSON.
You insult all the people around this Country who are working everyday to change things. HE’S ONE PERSON.
Yep McCain is just Obama trapped in a republicans body
So was Hitler.
McCain needs to retire but like most politicians his ego won't allow it. The worst part is we have to pay the price for this.
Stop being ridiculous.
I’m not insulting anyone, who is intellectually honest, by making a basic observation. What you wrote was a clear description of actual attitudes and that makes it a fair reflection of the electorate. Nothing complicated or emotional about that.
In what way am I being ridiculous. Dictators follow a pattern and I'm seeing one here. You don't?
Obama is too big to fail just like the Titanic was unsinkable.
what the mccainisty (keeting 5,cap and trade,shamnesty) tells me and how it relates to Obamas titanic sinking, is that there is a system in place that is the problem, Our government (left and right) is a huge monster that is manipulated by the monetary system to enslave us and drain us. Remove the obamas or the mcstains and it just wont go away, there is an entire industry of bloodsucking leeches that we call “leaders” working at a feverish pace, writing laws and figuring out new forms of taxation and ways of manipulating credit to consolidate and conquer [/tin foil hat]
its ridiculous because Hitler used to whip the population into a frenzy by ranting and raving daily, <p. wereas Obama speeks softly with a little whistle at the end of his sentences and lulls people to sleep with empty rhetoric
You are not too far from the truth. But I will make this exception. There are many who try to make a profit the honest way. They just don't try to seek political office.
McCain was forced to run much further right than he wanted to and also spend $21 million on a primary in which he would have breezed to a win a couple of years ago. I am not discouraged. That is $21 million that he doesn’t have to screw another conservative with or help a fellow RINO with. This result may keep him from helping his butt buddy Goober Grahmnesty out as much as he could have when she runs again. While not as good as seeing McCain get beaten, I still see it as a very positive outcome.
I don't. Never whistle past the graveyard. McCain is a disaster for us. Never forget that. He gave us Obama.
‘DONT PASS THAT HEALTHCARE BILL.”
I am still hoping that the lawsuit on the rocket docket will be our deliverance from the madness. Decision due any day now. Come on, judge.
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