Democrats in Congress Feeling the Heat

RealClearPolitics.com ^ | November 13, 2007 | E. J. Dionne

[gpapa]

WASHINGTON -- Democrats in Congress are discovering what it's like to live in the worst of all possible worlds. They are condemned for selling out to President Bush, and for failing to make compromises aimed at getting things done.

Democrats complain that this is unfair and, in some sense, it is. But who said that politics was fair?

Over the short run, Democratic congressional leaders can count on little support from their party's presidential candidates, particularly Barack Obama and John Edwards. Both have decided their best way of going after front-runner Hillary Clinton -- who has been in Washington since her husband's election as president in 1992 -- is to criticize politics-as-usual.

[kabar]

Remember when Reid was saying just before the 2006 mid-terms that a divided government was a good thing? Turnabout is fair play. The Dems obstructed Reps in getting anything done, including judicial nominations, because of the 60 vote rule in the Senate. You didn’t hear people like Dionne complaining that the criticism of Reps when they controlled Congress was unfair because of the Dems and the rules.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

But Bush seems to have decided that if he can't raise his own dismal approval ratings, he will drag the Democrats down with him. So far, that is what's happening.

These folks really do think that way. What a dismal world they inhabit.