Thank God OPR Didn't Get the Message
The Good News: Barack Obama and his Democratic leaders running the House and Senate did not get the message coming out of the Massachusetts election of Republican Senator-Elect Scott Brown. After more than a week of looking for signs, it's clear Obama, Pelosi, and Reid (OPR) are as blind to reality today as they have been since election day in November 2008.
It's hard to imagine how they can view the devastating electoral losses they incurred in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts as anything other than total rejection of their policies. But Obama and his comrades have stated that they just haven't been clear enough in their communication with the American people. See you're too stupid to figure out what they're doing is good for you. So they're hell-bent on shoving through their leftist ideology/policies down your throats regardless your support or lack thereof. In the end, you'll thank them.
I recall back in early 1994 watching Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts on This Week with David Brinkley stating that Bill Clinton "just hadn't found his voice yet." That was the reason American voters weren't buying into HillaryCare and his leftist agenda. The underlying message was once again that the electorate was just too stupid to get it. Some things never change.
Why is this good news? Because it's the best of all worlds for conservatives hoping to retake control of Congress this fall. OPR will spend the next several months trying to push through their policies. This will continue to infuriate the electorate. As such, just enough Democratic Senators and Congressmen will understand their political survival is at stake and will join with the Republicans to kill OPR's legislative efforts.
My concern after Scott Brown's massive victory in Massachusetts on January 19 was that OPR would wake up. Smell the coffee. Realize their hold on power was in serious jeopardy. They would then change their ways ("pivot") and transform into likable moderates thereby lowering the number of seats in Congress the GOP will win this November.
But after last night's "State of Obama" speech and previous rhetoric coming from OPR, it's clear that won't be the case. They've convinced themselves the country has jerked leftward, way leftward and that their brand of socialism is what the electorate had in mind when they handed them the reigns of power in November 2008.
Good. Such delusion will only serve conservative candidates very well on November 2, 2010.
DCuz






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