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The Democrats get lashed
WAPO ^ | November 4, 2009 | Michael Gerson

Posted on 11/04/2009 8:55:57 PM PST by pillut48

Today, national Democrats are trying their best to dismiss missing limbs as flesh wounds. It is their job. But they are in deep trouble if they believe their own spin. Compared to 12 months ago, 24 percent more Virginians voted Republican at the top of the ticket. Independents broke decisively against Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey. If this is not a backlash against Democrats, then who, exactly, was being lashed?

These losses, for the most part, don’t seem to be a personal repudiation of the president. But they highlight a political fact -- the political fact of the last year. In 2008, Obama won a broad, but not ideological, victory. Voters endorsed his reasoned, moderate tone in a moment of economic crisis, not the sustained, ambitious leftism of his current legislative agenda. Obama has massively overreached. During a summer of town hall discontent, and now in Virginia and New Jersey, citizens have begun to render their verdict...Last night, a message was sent. Now a question remains: Is Barack Obama capable of listening? All his amazing talent and skill come packaged with arrogance. Shifting his approach in a more centrist direction on health care or any other issue will not come easily. But it needs to come.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: backlash; bho44; gerson; nj2009; teapartyrebellion; va2009
OUCH. That's gonna leave a mark!
1 posted on 11/04/2009 8:55:57 PM PST by pillut48
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To: pillut48

Let the beatings begin.


2 posted on 11/04/2009 8:57:12 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: pillut48

The Democrats keep forcing fascism down our throats. Folks are getting tired of it.


3 posted on 11/04/2009 8:58:21 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Keep your dog. Get rid of a Liberal.)
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To: pillut48
These losses, for the most part, don’t seem to be a personal repudiation of the president.

Oh yes they are! He campaigned in New Jersey five times!
4 posted on 11/04/2009 8:58:54 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: pillut48
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and economy.

The democrats are destroying them. Republicans have many things to run on, but this is the first one. Second is fiscal responsiblity, which the democraps dont even know what that means.

5 posted on 11/04/2009 9:02:36 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: pillut48
-"Is Barack Obama capable of listening? "

Is Nancy Pelosi capable of listening?

Is Harry Reid capable of listening?

NO! - NO! - and NO!

In fact, even if they are - THEY DON'T CARE!!!

They are HELL BENT on ramming their SOCIALIST AGENDA down America's throat since the first day they took nearly dictatorial control of the levers of government!

They have turned into POLITICAL JIHADISTS!

This country will not turn around until we TAKE THEM OUT of power!

6 posted on 11/04/2009 9:03:38 PM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: VeniVidiVici
Damn right We The People are getting tired of the democrat horsesh!t.

Virginia and New Jersey were just the opening acts.

The democrats and their enablers are in for their just desserts come November 2010.


7 posted on 11/04/2009 9:04:32 PM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: pillut48

Ironically, Obama doesn’t know how to CHANGE!


8 posted on 11/04/2009 9:05:26 PM PST by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: pillut48

Sweet.


9 posted on 11/04/2009 9:06:04 PM PST by BAW (Thank you, Doug Hoffman, for inspiring me.)
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To: pillut48

Makes me think of the Monty Python “Black Knight” who after losing his limbs said it was just a flesh wound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690


10 posted on 11/04/2009 9:08:28 PM PST by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: Prole

11 posted on 11/04/2009 9:09:40 PM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: pillut48

The comments afterward come from WaPo reporters now that the fistfights have died down.


12 posted on 11/04/2009 9:10:24 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: pillut48

Put Obama's head on the person speaking.

Payback's a Beeyotch.

Cheers!

13 posted on 11/04/2009 9:13:02 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
Republicans have many things to run on...

But with the fools at the RNC and GOP, no one knows what Conservatives believe and want, nor do the idiots like Steele sell the solution.

14 posted on 11/04/2009 9:14:57 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: pillut48

As Rush said, the WaPo endorsed people who Lost.......Now a WaPo Editorial wants us to believe that the WaPo knows more than the voters and starts recommending Strategy.
As the alien said in the 4th of July movie to the presidents question “what do you want us to do ?”......
We want you to Die .....WaPo
You’re cluttering up Truthful jounalism with biased lying baloney.......in between Palin attacks.
Die media, stop the presses.


15 posted on 11/04/2009 9:16:33 PM PST by 4Speed
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To: Cobra64
I dont think Steele does a good message either, but he did have some big wins yesterday, which is the first thing he is supposed to do in his job.

The only thing one can do is keep at it and hammer it home to some of these buffoons.

If anything, I would run a campaign in the mold of McDonnell in VA. He won by 18 freaking points!

16 posted on 11/04/2009 9:19:34 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Cobra64
I dont think Steele does a good message either, but he did have some big wins yesterday, which is the first thing he is supposed to do in his job.

The only thing one can do is keep at it and hammer it home to some of these buffoons.

If anything, I would run a campaign in the mold of McDonnell in VA. He won by 18 freaking points!

17 posted on 11/04/2009 9:19:49 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: All
"...dismiss missing limbs as flesh wounds..."


18 posted on 11/04/2009 9:32:53 PM PST by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: pillut48

And so it goes.

19 posted on 11/04/2009 9:47:38 PM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: LibFreeUSA
Damn right.

A FRiend recently posted an FBI statement that anyone wearing the "Don't Tread on Me" or "Molon Labe" lettering as a tattoo is a potential terrorist suspect.

Can you believe that horsesh!t?

And the democrats wonder why Americans are so pissed off these days.

The democrats are calling us all terrorists because we reject their damn totalitarianism, gangster tactics, deathcare plan, massive debt, union thugs, ACORN criminals, higher taxes, verbal hostility and other dangerous bullsh!t.


20 posted on 11/04/2009 9:51:11 PM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: pillut48
Is Barack Obama capable of listening?

Of course he's listening.
It's war.
He's adapting his plans, ever focused on defeating the enemies of Marxism.
No leader ever says "aw, we lost one battle, let's go home."

21 posted on 11/04/2009 9:57:08 PM PST by ctdonath2 (End the coup!)
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To: oyez
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22 posted on 11/04/2009 11:32:43 PM PST by skimask
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To: pillut48
Obama is not Clinton. I don't see him as correcting course. The election last year was about "change." But change didn't mean changing America into Europe.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

23 posted on 11/05/2009 1:37:07 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: pillut48
Last night, a message was sent. Now a question remains: Is Barack Obama capable of listening? All his amazing talent and skill come packaged with arrogance. Shifting his approach in a more centrist direction on health care or any other issue will not come easily. But it needs to come.

"There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know."

0bama was rasied a communist (frank marshall davis). He worshiped in an America hating church (wright). He hung around with commies (ayers). He is sponsored by commies bent on taking control of the last free country on earth (soros).

The answer to the question, is he capable of listening, is obvious.

24 posted on 11/05/2009 2:41:56 AM PST by Post5203 (The ONLY WAY out of this mess is to enact term limits on congress)
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To: goldstategop
Obama is not Clinton. I don't see him as correcting course.

No, he is incapable, and that is a good thing. Yesterday we witnessed Obama's waterloo. The good news is that he will persist, he is hell-bent on attempting to socialize America.

His pathology will bring the Democratic party down by exposing what they are truly about. Liberalism itself could be brought down for decades.

I am ecstatic today, because yesterday showed me that the people are not going to put up with it. I wasn't sure we would wake up, but apparently, we are no longer sleepwalking (somnambulent?)

25 posted on 11/05/2009 3:34:34 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: grey_whiskers
Ask and you shall receive!
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26 posted on 11/05/2009 8:14:06 AM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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