Largely agree. I like Bachmann. I was just saying that if you look back at what actually happnened and not what the media says happened it’s a bit different. Again, if the shutdown was such a killer why did the 1996 exit poll show the Republican Powell beating Clinton 48-36 with 8 for Perot. If the shutdown really hurt the GOP you wouldn’t expect to see that. Why did they gain seats in the Senate and lose only 2 in th House? But I made those points elsewhere.
Again, Newt largely destroyed himself with saying the whole reason was because Clinton sunbbed him on AF1, even Delay mentioned it in his book.
And who cares about MSNBC? They spent all of 2009 and 2010 talking about how the Tea Party was going ot destory the GOP and the GOP had their biggest win since the 30s.
Ultimately, as long as the Dems have the WH and Senate nothing major can really be done. Even if the GOP takes the WH and the Senate in 2012 the dems will still likely have at least 40 in the Senate and be able to stop anything. It’s very frustrating.
2009 and 2010 MSNBC had the impossible job of defending Obama much like Hannity Defending Bush in prior years. There was little going on but them play acting. But the previous 3 years they spent tearing down Bush to destroy Republicans for 2006 and 2008. Now we have split government so it's not as obvious who will win or lose in each battle as those years.
It's not even that MSNBC has many viewers but Democrats political attacks are all outlined on those shows like a map to a landmine, so no excuse stepping on those mines.