Posted on 07/19/2010 5:59:40 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
Under pressure, the Democrats are cracking. On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there is a realization that Nancy Pelosi's hold on the speakership is in true jeopardy; that losing control of the Senate is not out of the question; and that time, once the Democrats' best friend, is now their mortal enemy. Since January, when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, the President's party has tried to downplay in public what its pollsters have been saying in private: that Obama's alienation of independents and white voters, along with the enthusiasm gap between the right and the left, means that Republicans are on a trajectory to pick up massive numbers of House and Senate seats, perhaps even to regain control of Congress.
Evidence of the pervasiveness of this view: Sunday's New York Times op-ed page, which featured a series of short essays from leading Democratic and Republican strategists about how Obama could go about staging a political comeback, focused not on November's midterms but on 2012 — an indication that Washington conventional wisdom has already written off prospects of Democrats sustaining a majority in the legislature. (See 10 health care reform ads.)
What has kept the easily panicked denizens of Capitol Hill from open revolt until now was a shared confidence that there was still plenty of time to turn things around, and that the White House HAD a strategy to do just that.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Their impending loss is all due to “Obama’s alienation of independents and white voters, along with the enthusiasm gap.”
Time can’t bring itself to blame the communism and the planned and overt destruction of America.
What took so long idiots to figure it out?
I saw “Idiot Joe” Biden on TV this morning saying that the dims would surprise everyone at the mid-terms. Our job is to not be over-confident and follow through and make him look like the moron he is.
yep, blame it on whitey! LOL!
It’s their own damned fault. The freshman RATS sealed their own fate with their vote on Obamacare, effectively giving their constituents the finger. Hope they and their staffs enjoy joining the unemployment lines.
Not to worry - Uncle Joe sez the dims will shock, that’s SHOCK, everyone in this year’s election.
Shocking, isn’t it?
Don't let up.
Be wary of articles like this. Republicans can’t get complacent and think it’s a done deal.
But if you want reasoning behind the charges of racism, this is it. The strategy is to distract from the issues, marginalize and alienate the Tea Party crowd and gin up the black vote.
I caught that as well. It's not 'alienation' that's turned us away, it's the downright takeover of American free enterprise and burgeoning government control that has us PO'd.
Unless the GOP has a huge tidal wave win and then demands proof of eligibility - it won’t matter. The coup must be undone.
That was always his plan. Ruin the country so much in the first two years that it didn’t matter who was elected in the mid-terms.
Nice attempt by the Time author to blame racism for Obama's failure. What would he blame for O's failure, if O had identical policies but was as pasty white as Clinton?
Mark Harplin?
I didn’t realized it....until a moment ago, but getting a libs name wrong is OK with me! LOL!
The problem is that in 10-12 years if the Republicans take over the House and Senate that they will act like gentlemen and make nicey-nicey with the Rats. They will spend money to appear compassionate and the cycle will start over.
The Republicans need to get out the message at town halls (Because the Lame stream Media won't give them credit) and educate the public about our history and make them understand how econimcs in a free enterprise system works. Teach them about the evils of Socialism
...but biden said the dems would shock everyone with a comeback.
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