Posted on 11/03/2014 4:00:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
After tomorrow's midterm results, the media will settle on some tired explanations. Here's why they're all wrong.
As I write this, the midterm elections are imminent. A number of races are quite close, but it seems safe to say that Republicans will probably win control of the Senate, if only by a slim margin. Should this happen, two things are virtual certainties: first, a blast of right-wing triumphalism, whose upshot will be that the electorate has endorsed Republican obstruction and its virulent rejection of all-things-Obama; second, an equally shrill threnody of Democratic recrimination, whose principal refrain will be (more or less) “Obama did it!”
So here at last we will have the bipartisan moment so many of our thinkers and officials have longed for. Ain’t consensus grand?
These reactions, celebratory on the one hand, accusatory on the other, will probably exhibit another parallelism as well. Some Republicans will urge caution with their newly-won majority, arguing that success with the 2014 electorate will not automatically transfer to the electorate of 2016. Others, flush with victory, will shrug off this concern; the 2014 results, they will say, bespeak the Mind of America. All that’s necessary to ensure success in 2016 is Fidelity (to conservative principles) and Resolve (in conservative loins).
The Democratic version of this conflict will similarly array the anxious against the assured. The former will wonder if another disastrous midterm doesn’t indicate a need for some recalibration of liberal politics; the latter will demur that the demographics of presidential electorates irresistibly favor the progressive cause.
Far be it from me to offer advice to Republicans. I would, however, like to comment on these two dilemmas as they bear on liberal politics. In each case, I will argue, real dangers lurk if Democrats learn the wrong lessons from the Obama years....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Dribble.
I won't let my browser go to salon.com for fear that it might catch some kind of disease.
So what are the "wrong" lessons that Ms. Thought Police is so desperately trying to preemptively banish from the Demo/Commies' little minds?
Is it just the usual "Democrats good, Republicans evil" foolishness, or is it some other kind of foolishness?
It’s Salon. I hope they have the moxy to make absolute asses of themselves. I would be disappointed, bereft even if they shut up.
It’s makes parties with the minions so much more predictable. I don’t have to work so hard.
Of course the longer the obaminations are in office, the fewer minions admit to being minions.
The only thing they should be reminded of is that once joyful refrain used by their inept god: We won.
Yes, indeed.
Your keyboard to God's ears. I look at a 51-seat majority in the Senate as a mandate to stuff every proggie in sight into FEMA camps where they will be forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh over the camp loudspeakers day and night. And I'm a moderate.
Far be it from me to offer advice to Republicans.
If the rest of the media took that attitude Salon, Politico, and HuffPo would collapse like punctured balloons. And as with nearly everything in progressive politics, the author is cheerfully lying. The balance of this risible screed is, yes, you guessed it, blaming the Republicans. Joe McCarthy is invoked. 0bamacare is presented as, heaven help us, a compromise rejected by those ungrateful Republicans and never mind the fact that it was, on the contrary, the closest thing to a coup d'etat the American government has ever experienced. A bill passed without being read that takes over one-sixth of the American economy, a "compromise"? I'm laughing so hard I'm hurting.
Nevertheless, those of us on the receiving end of the relentless blast of hostility, racial accusations, ridicule, and belittlement that composes what this delusional author considers a "compromise" may be grateful that this birdcage liner stopped mercifully after fewer than a thousand words more of this stuff.
That is what happens when condoms leak. I pretty sure this was drivel.
I didn’t go to saloon’s website so I won’t comment on their dreck.
Kim’s a dude, according to Salon.
Then Kim's the one on the left in the Steelers shirt.
Paranoia is no better displayed than in the left’s hatred of Palin. Or W. Or .....fill in the blank. If it were true (and I do not think so) they still have absolutely no room to talk.
Obola is too conservative.
Yeah, that’s the problem.
They are the enemy. Screw ‘em.
The only reason things are as bad as they are is that the Republican Senate and House won’t pass any of Obama’s wonderful bills which would immediately trun this country into paradise if it weren’t for their hatred and ignorance in opposing him...and on and on and on......
I think I’m gonna cry. /S
Their internal polls must really be looking bad.
I can’t seem to find a photo of him. Maybe it’s just as well.
This kind of braying from the Left was predicted a week ago here on FR.
Hey, Kim, try to come up with something original.
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