Posted on 02/05/2014 10:51:40 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton Arrives to Calm Democratic ‘Bed-Wetting’
By Jeff Zeleny @jeffzeleny Follow on Twitter Feb 5, 2014 12:42pm
The bed-wetting has begun. It may not be a pleasant image, but that’s the phrase used inside Obamaworld when Democrats start worrying about their political fortunes. And nine months before the midterm elections, the worry is intensifying, particularly given the latest batch of bad news for the new health care law.
David Plouffe, the president’s former campaign manager and top political adviser, first coined the term “bed-wetting”‘ back in 2008 when Democrats began openly fretting about their political challenges. He said the mood today inside the party is starting to remind him of the same moment.
When asked whether the bed-wetting phase of the 2014 campaign season was starting, he laughed and declared: “Ha. Of course it is.”
Democrats are indeed anxious, particularly with Republicans only six seats away from winning control of the Senate in November. By any calculation, it’s a tough political map. Democrats are defending Senate seats on unfriendly terrain across the South and other states where President Obama either lost decisively or struggled to win. This sets the stage for a contentious closed-door policy retreat and strategy session today that Senate Democrats are having with the president. In addition to Obama, the guest speaker is Bill Clinton, who is poised to deliver a speech, take questions and try to coach jittery Democrats how to keep their heads up during a rocky midterm election year.
Only a week after the president urged Democrats in his State of the Union address to get back on the offensive in the health care fight, a new CBO report puts them back on defense.
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The Republicans do a much better job of bedwetting.
Do you really see the entitlement army voting R?
Bill has lost a lot of weight. Perhaps Bill is there symbolically to represent the slimming down of Democrats from Congress?
Clinton’s worth $100 million+. He didn’t get there by being stupid. Every Democrat dreams of the Big Corruption Score. Bill’s taking them to school.
You mean read my lips didn’t do Bush I in?
Perhaps he was channeling Willie Sutton?
Who counts the votes?
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