2010 situation grows more difficult for Democrats

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | January 2, 2010 | By LIZ SIDOTI, AP National Political Writer

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON – An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.

To minimize expected losses in next fall's election, President Barack Obama's party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street.

Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who heads the House Democrats' campaign arm, said his party wants to remind voters who was on their side at a difficult time. "The Republican Party in Washington today is no different than the Republican Party that ran the Congress before," he said.

But that was three years ago. Democrats have been in control since, and Bush is long gone. This is Obama's country now. Democrats tried to use Bush against Republican Chris Christie in the New Jersey governor's race in November — and Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine still lost.

[mainepatsfan]

Can Christie get much done with the legislature?

[jocon307]

“Can Christie get much done with the legislature?”

That I do not know, but I did vote for him in the primary because he seemed like that kind of person who COULD get things done. He doesn’t seem stuck on himself, nor an idealoge, yet a person with the power of persuasion. He has said (I believe) that he will govern as a one termer, without worrying about his re-electability. But if he won’t go after the muni unions he won’t get anywhere. We’ll see.

NJ’s motto is “Liberty & Prosperity”, with the nation’s densest population and located as we are between NY & Pennsy there is no good reason why this state’s economy should not always be rocking. And it is completely stagnant right now.

[Bahbah]

If this is the plan, their internal polling must be simply awful.

[bt579]

>>>McConnell sold us out (deliberately) during the (so called) health care bill process. As evidenced by his strategy and actions, his goal was not to stop the bill, but to use it as PR for the 2010 elections.<<<<<

What part of 60 vote filibuster proof majority dont you understand??

[M-cubed]

When asked he won’t even come out in public and say that the Pubbies’ goal is to repeal if they regain control. Because it’s not. <<

EXACTLY!....the RINO party still believes in being “only a little bit pregnant”

[Paine in the Neck]

AP Headline in 2026: ‘Bush Legacy Hurting Job Growth’

Why not? They got a good 70 years out of pounding Hoover.

[FreedBird]

Obama doesn’t seem to be man enough to take responsibilty for his own actions; he loves to blame others. He knows many of his followers will just repeat his words as if they were gospel. The truth is we are in a greater mess now than a year ago. The debt is quicksand for the Dems.

[OrangeHoof]

IOW, the Democrats will use the same stale ideas they’ve been using since they lost in 2000.

* Blame Bush.
* Blame the rich.
* Blame the war.

Democrats bankrupt the country while they are bankrupt of creative solutions.

[ChildOfThe60s]

What part of 60 vote filibuster proof majority dont you understand??

I understand it perfectly. He had multiple ways to use Senate rules and whatnot to delay, delay, delay.

There are/were benefits to doing that, in spite of the numerical disadvantage. First, the longer it takes, to stinkier it becomes publicly for the Dems. And the harder it gets for Reid to hold them together. We are winning the PR side of things, in spite of McConnell's weak kneed persona.

And McConnell has never figured out that *any* accommodation of the Dems is like throwing a small amount of red meat to a pack of wild wolves. They see it as weakness (correctly so in his case) and it encourages them. They despise weakness. They see McConnell as such a winp he can't even ask his fellow Pubbies and staffers to stay over Christmas in order to cause the Dems grief. They are laughing their asses off at him.

[Magnatron]

It's funny how hard they tried to connect Christie and Bush in New Jersey (I'm still scratching my head trying to figure it out - were they poker buddies or something?). Here's the billboard they ran all over the state:

This is the one that Corzine ran for himself:

I wonder which one worked?

[NormsRevenge]

Et tu, AP?

Love it.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I swear these morons will still blame Republicans even if they held every single elective office in the country.

[Names Ash Housewares]

None of their lies and tricks will work THIS year! LOL

FULL SPEED AHEAD FOLKS!!!

FIRE ALL CANNONS!

WE HAVE THE WIND AT OUR BACKS AND THERE IS FEAR IN THE EYES OF THE ENEMY!

[HighlyOpinionated]

Impeach Obama!

Audit the Fed: Abolish the Fed.

Abolish the 16th Amendment: Institute a 5% Fair Tax.

Abolish the 17th Amendment and Reinstate the US Constitution Article 1, Section 3. Institute Term Limits in Congress. No more than a total of 16 years in Congress [either House or Senate or both]. Rescind the Perks of Lifetime income and health coverage. It's called PUBLIC SERVICE for a reason. It should be an HONOR to be a SERVANT of the PUBLIC, not some life-long employment of so many lawyers who don't have what it takes to make money at lawyering in the Real World . . . at least most of the Republicans had REAL jobs in the REAL WORLD that many can go back to when they leave Congress. Federal Employees, including the three branches of Government, should have to purchase their own Health Coverage, just as their Constituents and most Taxpayers do; should have to pay into and draw from Social Security, just as their Constituents and Taxpayers do; should have to plan for their own retirement, just as their Constituents and Taxpayers do.

Restrict Lobbyists to those who have been out of Government employment for 16 years. [Elected, appointed, or employee of elected or appointed.]

Age Limits on Supreme Court. Mandatory Retirement at 80.

I could go on and most of you could add to this list. Someone familiar with what damage was done to our US Constitution by Woodrow Wilson and the Presidents who followed could probably come up with a Master List.

And maybe, just maybe, someone with some guts will man up [or woman up] and raise these issues in Congress. Rep. Michele Bachmann does a great job, but she's only one person. Where are all the OTHERS? Why do they not speak out? Why does it take a woman, a Republican woman, to correct what generations of men have done to our Constitution?

And I cannot say that Rep Ron Paul has done as much as Rep Michele Bachmann overall. He's on the forefront of the "End the Fed" movement, though, and I appreciate him for that.