Poll: Dems in Deep Doo-Doo

Rush Limbaugh ^ | 14 January 2002 | Rush Limbaugh

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		found an interesting story in Sunday's Washington Post. It was titled, "Poll Finds Bad News for Democrats Looking for a Traditional Midterm Election Edge." Oh, yes. And you wondered why they are acting like such desperate, panicked fools over this Enron non-story? The story reports, "A solid Democratic advantage going into the 2002 House and Senate races has evaporated in the wake of September 11th, according to a poll taken by the Cook Political Report."

		So instead of picking up 20 or 30 seats in the House as historical trends showed the Democrats would, they may not gain a legitimate majority in the Senate, or even pick up the tiny number of seats they need to make Dick Gephardt Speaker of the House. Now, why would this be? Why would such a predictable political tradition not be followed this year? Well, let me weigh in with an answer or two. The Democrats know that their liberalism isn't resonating with people. In fact, they won't even call themselves "liberal." They couch it in terms such as "progressive." Some of them have taken to calling themselves "conservative." The nation is firmly united behind Bush and his party, and the Democrats don't know what to do. They simply have no ideas, and since the only thing they know how to do is fear-monger and distort and engage in personal attacks, they can't get traction. Daschle launched that bizarre attack - that he and Bob Rubin put together - on Bush about ten days ago, and it bombed. No one's buying what they're selling. No one believes Daschle when he says the $300-some Billion Bush tax cut, which a dozen Democratic senators voted for, ate up the $1.4 Trillion surplus. The tax cut hasn't even gone into effect, so it couldn't have caused that, and everybody knows it. The American people aren't too stupid to do math, despite the liberal takeover of education, so Daschle's speech was a total bomb.

		The next partisan Democratic rallying point after that failure has been Enron. Never mind that there's no political scandal there. Never mind that there isn't even a coherent allegation when you get right down to brass tacks. Never mind that we took calls on Enron all day on Monday, here on the largest talk radio show in the history of radio waves, and nobody mentioned a specific allegation. No, that doesn't matter. You see, the Democrats don't need a charge to make a scandal, because the media follows whatever they say and report it as fact. In true Clintonesque fashion, the Democratic leadership in Washington is putting their party before the nation and the nation sees it. They claim they don't want this president to fail, but the truth is, they do. It's obvious, which is really all that needs to be known about the Enron matter, pure and simple. While the Democrats say they care about working people, the truth is, they don't. That's why they tried to block true efforts to stimulate the economy, and the average American who could have benefited from that stimulus knows it was the Democrats who blocked it. They can't get away with fooling people much longer, not so long as there is an EIB Network - and there will be for at least another 12 to 15 years.

		(...go over the poll numbers that have the Democrats panicking)

		(Washington Post: Poll Finds Bad News for Dems Looking for a Election Edge)

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[Mahone]

Even that liberal rag, the Spokesman Review, had a big political cartoon of Bush trying to bury a coffin labled "recession", while Daschle and Gephard were trying to pull it back out. May at least some of the American people continue to understand that with the Democrats it is always "all about them".

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I HOPE I HOPE I HOPE

. I would so love too bury these scumbags. The older I get the more I despise demoRATS!

[copycat]

BTTT

[sweetliberty]

This is their mentality; no doubt about it!

DU Poll: What Will It Take To Bring Down This President

[Salvation]

Down with Daschle Democrats.

[Salvation]

. In true Clintonesque fashion, the Democratic leadership in Washington is putting their party before the nation and the nation sees it.

I keep hoping that voting Americans have really woken up.

[Common Tator]

It is historically true. The only scandals that hurt presidents are the ones exposed by both parties. The Teapot Dome, the WWII war contracts, the State department spying of Alger Hiss, and others, the Vicuna coat, the LBJ TV Station, the Billy Gate of Carter, Iran Contra, and Monica were all scandals in the last century. None of these brought a president down and none harmed his party.

Just one scandal was fatal and that was Watergate. For that one Nixons big accuser was Howard Baker the Republican leader in the Senate. Both the Republicans and Democrats went after Nixon and they got him. It hurt Republicans at the polls too. That is the only time it has happened.

What has brought presidents down is not trying to fix the economy when it is bad. Hoover refused to use government to fix the depression and he was dumped big time for FDR by the voters. FDR talked about fixing the economy.

FDR came to office proposing all sorts of schemes to fix the economy. But the economy did not get fixed for nearly 10 years. That did not keep FDR from getting reelected twice. Roosevelt the Democrat proposed and Senator Taft the Republican fought him at every step of the way. So the situation was this. Roosevelt and the Democrats were trying to fix the economy. Taft and the Republicans were trying to stop him. The people supported Roosevelt and the Democrats. If the Republicans had given FDR everything he asked for, and the economy has stayed bad, FDR would have been a one term president. Rule number one... Never get in the was of a President trying to fix the economy. The people frown on it.

Then Good old Jimmy Carter could not help blaming the economy on the peoples malaise. That cost him his job. Reagan had a plan to fix it and Jimmy said it was the peoples fault. Bye bye Jimmy. The man who wants to fix the economy wins.. every time.

Bush Sr. didn't even talk about the economy in 92 and said there was no long term problem. Clinton said its the economy stupid and I will fix it. It really did not need fixing, but the promise to fix elected Clinton.

Dubya has been saying since the campaign of 2000 that we were going to have problems with the economy. The Democrats said no way. Now the democrats agree we have a problem but say they won't pass Dubya's plan to fix it. Today's Democrats are replaying the Taft role against Dubya's FDR act.

It gives Bush the best of all worlds. If the economy improves then Dubya gets the credit. He is the only one trying to fix it. If the economy stays bad or gets worse then it is Daschles fault. He and the Democrats are hard at work keeping Bush from fixing the economy.

Those 35 thousand Ford workers, todays John Deere plant an lots more see Dubya as a man trying to fix the economy. Each day they become more aware that the Democrats are trying to stop him from fixing the economy.

There is only one winning hand to play against a president in a bad economy if he is trying to fix it. The out of power party has to propose an economic plan the president can't accept. They have to promote it around the clock. That puts the president in the position of being the president not trying to fix the economy. That changes the question to who really wants to fix it. That one the congress might win.

The stages of Daschle stragegy go like this

    "Bush is lying There is no problem."  
    "Well not much of a problem. Bush is exagerating"  
    "It doesn't need fixing. Bush is overreacting."  
    "Bushs fix is all wrong. His fix won't work" 
    "It needs a much smaller fix. Bush wants too much" 
    "We'll only pass part of the fix. We know best" 
    "The economys real bad elect us Democrats to fix it."

That is where Daschle is heading.
It won't work for him.
It woud not work for anyone.
Only an idiot would try it.

What does that make Daschle?

[GeronL]

I am still waiting for the GOP TV ads saying "The democrats say you'd be better off with less money in your pocket.. we don't know what their smoking.."

[GeronL]

at one of these speeches I want Bush to say something like "And some Democrats think you'll be better off with less money in your pocket [crowd boo's], I don't know what their smoking [laughs] but they definitely inhaled [crowd goes nuts]".

It should be another factory speech too.

[monkeyshine]

Marvelous analysis!
BUMP-O-SING-IT-FROM-THE-MOUNTAIN-TOPS-RAMA

[Sueann]

"Both the Republicans and Democrats went after Nixon and they got him"

And ... the saddest part of all was the fact that the impeachment committee dismissed all the charges against Nixon. Talk about Witch Hunt!! And ... guess who was "counsel" during this witch hunt - you guessed it - Hillary.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Another interesting and encouraging poll result (Fox News maybe) is that by a 54 to 30 percent count people believe that the Demorats would like to see the recession continue to be able to use it politically against the President - perhaps the public is finally beginning to understand how manipulative, destructive, self-serving, and power-hungry 'rats really are - let's hope that insight lasts......