It’s not rocket science. A stimulus that turned out to be nothing but the biggest porkfest in history, a healthcare bill rammed past the tonsils of an angry and unwilling population, skyrocketing unemployment and a “president” and wife who party like retired rock stars...
In every way, the Dems are acting just as aloof and condescending as entrenched royalty who are utterly perplexed at the uppity antics of the peasantry.
Since 1972 they’ve been the commiecRATS, used to be decent folks.
How Did Democrats Get Here?
By being Democrats...
Somehow all this talk of a GOP landslide only makes me believe it’s intended to breed complacency on our side, or give the dems reason to celebrate when the talk turns out to be hype.
We may win a significant portion of Congress (and I hope we do), but I’m not ready to simply assume it’s going to happen.
They walked off the cliff in lockstep following Pelosi and Reid.
LLS
Why the Dems are in the shape there in can be found in the majority of comments on the Times.
Obama was not progressive enough.
Right-wing media and its lies.
Didn’t spend enough on the stimulus.
The evil Tea-Parties
A few of the Times 1000 readers blame the economy with one even realizing overruling the votes of 7 million Californians on marriage and taking Arizona to court, hurt Obama; yet, even they still do not get it.
Americas feels they were duped (they weren’t, Conservatives were screaming at the top of our lungs how bad Obama and the Dems would be) and after sending a few messages to move to the middle (Ma, Va, Nj) only to be ignored, they are doing the only thing they can. Throwing out as many Democrats and RINO’s as possible.
Bush’s fault!
They sold their souls......
"...health care might have been unpopular, for instance, but the reason for its unpopularity may ultimately have been the economy."
This guy completely fails to see the basic disagreement Americans have with government mandated health care - which is, it isn't free, it's a gargantuan gov't takeover of a large and important sector of the private sector (which may not even be constitutional), and it's an abridgment of basic individual rights.
Instead of simply observing with his own two eyes, and making note of what he sees, this lib substitutes his own theory as to why Americans oppose(d) Obamacare. If he'd been listening during the nine months the Democrats were trying to get it passed, he would have heard the American people's concerns.
Obviously, he's been listening to the MSM, Obama, Pelosi, et al, and so he's surprised that Americans are exploding in rage at the Dems.
The Democrats got here by waking the dead every election night and by frightening old people and exploiting the poor.
Perfect case of navel gazing. Why do college students like sex and beer? Why do dems like socialism and totalitarianism? They just go hand in hand.
The “Democrats” got here by slowly being taken over by the far-left marxists over the past 50 years, until there was no room in the party for reasonable people anymore.
Then suddenly, with 0bama, the marxists got just about everything they wanted, have done it, and it is predictably FAILING despite their decades of planning and hard work.
Now they’re screwed for generations, I hope.
(A cynic might say that the marxists are intentionally imposing failed marxist principles on America to give the formerly communistic/socialistic countries like China and Russia time to establish overpowering capitalistic economies, but that’s a different discussion entirely.)
all talk? can’t accomplish?
For the first time since FDR the Democrats can act like Democrats without any GOP interference at all.
Thus, the result..............
Yes, they are in their predicament because of Obamacare, Pelosi and Reid, their duplicity and double-dealings in how they handle legislation, but -- none of this is new or unpredented. This strong-handed maniupulation and use of the powers in Washington have long happened under other Democrats with huge majorities includuing Lyndon Johnson and Carl Hayden in the 1960s and under Sam Rayburn in the 1940s. In prior years we had 90% tax rates and all sorts of examples of "deem and pass."
What makes the difference? Our media, especially AM talk radio and Fox News. They exposed the underhandedness of the process and the nasty details of the legislation, within minutes, and the Democrats could not run from it.
Such is EXACTLY what our Founding Fathers wanted -- accountability. The Dems are having it and they hate it.
Of course, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If the Repubbies aren't clean after getting power they, too, will receive a drubbing in 2 or 4 years.
Americans are going to do whatever it takes to try to nullify the last 2 years of Obama’s reign. They recognize the huge mistake they made in November 2008 and will try to correct it as much as possible.
Willfully, with glee and malice aforethought.
How Did Democrats get here?
I think they refer to it as the Darwin theory.