Posted on 01/02/2010 6:29:25 AM PST by 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.
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Can Christie get much done with the legislature?
“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.
If this is the plan, their internal polling must be simply awful.
>>>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??
EXACTLY!....the RINO party still believes in being “only a little bit pregnant”
Why not? They got a good 70 years out of pounding Hoover.
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.
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.
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.
This is the one that Corzine ran for himself:
I wonder which one worked?
Et tu, AP?
Love it.
I swear these morons will still blame Republicans even if they held every single elective office in the country.
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!
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