Backfire
Instapundit:
This is what happens when you get beat and, rather than sitting down and calmly figuring out what you did wrong, you panic instead and start grabbing at straws, looking for a cheap fix. There is no cheap fix for where the Dems have landed themselves.
Just like the GOP after it lost its majority in 2006/2008, the Dems will have to earn their way back. That means either convincing people that their approach to things is the correct one or changing their approach to things so it more closely resembles what voters want. So far, they don't have a clue how to do that and are just digging themselves into a deeper hole. It's all about recapturing credibility, and attacking the other side with false accusations and name-calling contributes nothing to that, merely makes you a sore loser having a tantrum and it fires up the opposition.
Dems have two serious problems. One is that they rammed legislation through with their control of the WH and both houses of Congress, which means blaming the GOP won't work -- Dems did not need a single GOP vote to carry out their agenda. The second is that they did so much long-lasting damage (e.g., outrageous spending and deficits), that it will follow them for years like tin cans tied to their tails. They fully own the entire mess for as long as it lasts. Since the Dems that survived the last election were mostly the more leftward leaning, their strong inclination will likely be to double down on their legislative and regulatory record. Good luck with that.
We about to see how smart Obama really is.
Byron
The biggest worry after the November elections was that a lot of people on the right would declare victory and go home. The shameless attempt to politicize the Tucson shootings and scapegoat people on the right has generated a huge amount of anger. Tea Party folks being who they are, I suspect this will mostly manifest itself as grunt-level political work in preparation for 2012 — precisely the opposite of what the scapegoaters were hoping for: Don’t get mad, get even, by making 2012 an even bigger shellacking than 2010.
This is what happens when you get beat and, rather than sitting down and calmly figuring out what you did wrong, you panic instead and start grabbing at straws, looking for a cheap fix. There is no cheap fix for where the Dems have landed themselves.
Just like the GOP after it lost its majority in 2006/2008, the Dems will have to earn their way back. That means either convincing people that their approach to things is the correct one or changing their approach to things so it more closely resembles what voters want. So far, they don't have a clue how to do that and are just digging themselves into a deeper hole. It's all about recapturing credibility, and attacking the other side with false accusations and name-calling contributes nothing to that, merely makes you a sore loser having a tantrum and it fires up the opposition.
Dems have two serious problems. One is that they rammed legislation through with their control of the WH and both houses of Congress, which means blaming the GOP won't work -- Dems did not need a single GOP vote to carry out their agenda. The second is that they did so much long-lasting damage (e.g., outrageous spending and deficits), that it will follow them for years like tin cans tied to their tails. They fully own the entire mess for as long as it lasts. Since the Dems that survived the last election were mostly the more leftward leaning, their strong inclination will likely be to double down on their legislative and regulatory record. Good luck with that.
We about to see how smart Obama really is.
Byron
posted by Byron | Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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