Dems Start to Panic As Midterm Reality Sets In

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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.

Read more: time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2004646,00.html#ixzz0uA4p4mTe

I don’t know. It’s not Labor Day yet. Anything can happen.
 
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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.
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So American politics is racially polarized?

For instance read these by Kevin MacDonald:

Managing White Rage

Anger in White America Again

Further Evidence for the Racial Polarization of American Politics
 
Black_Rose said:
So American politics is racially polarized?

For instance read these by Kevin MacDonald:

Managing White Rage

Anger in White America Again

Further Evidence for the Racial Polarization of American Politics
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It is the Democrats who are always playing the race card. They are the ones constantly accusing those who disagree with them of being racist. You will not find any instances, or very, very few, among the Republicans. That is one major reason why people have stopped listening to the Democrats. They are just one long broken record, constantly attacking and accusing with nothing positive to say. And they are destroying the country with the way they have been governing.

To quote Bill Clinton: “It’s time for you to go!”
 
Brooklyn said:
It is the Democrats who are always playing the race card. They are the ones constantly accusing those who disagree with them of being racist. You will not find any instances, or very, very few, among the Republicans. That is one major reason why people have stopped listening to the Democrats. They are just one long broken record, constantly attacking and accusing with nothing positive to say. And they are destroying the country with the way they have been governing.

To quote Bill Clinton: “It’s time for you to go!”
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Newt Gingrich said publically something to the effect that Bill Clinton would have controlled the oil spill much more efficiently than the President has…and so the Dems have cited the Republicans once again of racism…I guess because Clinton is white? LOL! I cannot even make logical sense out of it. Then again, I think this administration has lost all common sense. Seems to me the Dems are imploding.
 
Teelynn said:
Newt Gingrich said publically something to the effect that Bill Clinton would have controlled the oil spill much more efficiently than the President has…and so the Dems have cited the Republicans once again of racism…I guess because Clinton is white? LOL! I cannot even make logical sense out of it. Then again, I think this administration has lost all common sense. Seems to me the Dems are imploding.
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Do you not remember that Bill Clinton was the first black president?😃
 
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Well, let me just say this, and it is quite ON topic…I think the Dems are scrambling to use any and all tactics to save some seats and not loose all control. They are definitely starting to panic. Trust me, by November they will have pulled out all the stops. I don’t put anything past them. It will be interesting.
 
nice article today in *The Wall Street Journal *by James Taranto in The Best of the Web describing why these dems are in so much trouble. It least his opinion of why matches why I want them gone. They don’t govern along with the will of the public, as shown in ramming through that monstrosity ObamaCare against popular revolt.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575377220929317324.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

The vice president’s description of the administration’s political strategy reminds us of the business plan of the Underpants Gnomes from “South Park”:

Phase 1: Legislation
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Victory

A more conventional approach, one with a clear path to political victory, goes like this:

Phase 1: Convince voters of the merits of your proposal
Phase 2: Legislation
Phase 3: Victory

If you win the voters’ support for your proposals first, not only do they have a reason to stick with you, but more members of the other party will feel obliged to vote your way, even if they have misgivings about your policies. George W. Bush took this approach to the Iraq war resolution in 2002. It passed with bipartisan support, and declining public confidence in the war effort did not hurt Republicans at the polls until four years later.

One can make the case–assuming for the sake of argument that Obama’s legislative initiatives were good policy–that the stimulus was a response to a crisis and thus passing it quickly was more important than winning broad support ahead of time. The same can be said of the 2008 financial bailout legislation, for which some supporters are now paying a political price. Perhaps one could make the same argument for last week’s Wall Street legislation, though that’s more of a stretch.

But not ObamaCare, which was not a response to a crisis but an exercise in ideological and political vanity. There is no excuse for the Democrats’ having pushed through this law after having failed to win popular support for it. Under these circumstances, it is completely rational to support the only party capable of checking such imperious behavior.
 
gilliam said:
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. ****

Read more: time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2004646,00.html#ixzz0uA4p4mTe

I don’t know. It’s not Labor Day yet. Anything can happen.
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Could this be just a big huge buildup of expectations by the Democrats with help from the MSM so that anything short of outright takeover of both houses of congress by Republicans will be contrued as a big “comeback” for Obama and Pelosi and a defeat for the Tea Party? I think the hype has been building for some time. I also heard that the spokesman for Obama has said that the Democrats might lose control of the Senate. Could it be that they are just trying to raise the expectations in order to help them spin their midterm losses that don’t result in a Republican takeover? Or am I overthinking this?

Ishii
 
ishii said:
Could this be just a big huge buildup of expectations by the Democrats with help from the MSM so that anything short of outright takeover of both houses of congress by Republicans will be contrued as a big “comeback” for Obama and Pelosi and a defeat for the Tea Party?

Could it be that they are just trying to raise the expectations in order to help them spin their midterm losses that don’t result in a Republican takeover?
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Perhaps.
But who cares?
Once someone is dillusional enough to see pink elephants flying around, I do not believe it matters how many there are.

Keep in mind that the spin machine you envision only happens after the democrats are defeated.

The process of recovery can begin, and the democrats can continue to spin around all they want. No one will believe them.
 
Here’s how the theater will play out:

Under pressure to create jobs, the two football teams will throw rhetoric at each other until August.

In September, they will muddle through with some sort of jobs package, while throwing the occasional filibuster.

By October, miracles will begin to occur in the job market.

At the last minute, Obama, like the cavalry, will announce that the New General Motors will soon be announcing an Initial Public Offering and the government will now be able to divest itself of its stake. And jobs are being created right now! Touchdown for the Democrats!

The last quarter will see an “unexpected” increase in jobs, consumer confidence will go up, permits for new housing will go up, and foreclosures will drop.

Then the Media will panic and start scrambling for some new disaster that they can talk about endlessly.

God bless,
Ed
 
edwest2 said:
The last quarter will see an “unexpected” increase in jobs, consumer confidence will go up, permits for new housing will go up, and foreclosures will drop.
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One thing I have learned since the recession started.
It doesn’t matter if the numbers are going up or going down, the media always reports it as being unexpected.
 
according to our vice president, joe biden, the democrats are going to shock everyone.

i hope they will be in for a rude awakening that is long overdue. :eek:
 
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