Obamacide

Frisco_Slug_Esq said:

Listening to Limbaugh, eh?

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miles said:

Ya gotta admit it's funny as hell!

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miles said:

Ya gotta admit it's funny as hell!

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RightField said:

Accurate too.

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The past week began (for me) on a bright note and only got better. The New York Times announced the Democrats have instituted internal death panels:

As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim grip on the majority.

In the next two weeks, Democratic leaders will review new polls and other data that show whether vulnerable incumbents have a path to victory. If not, the party is poised to redirect money to concentrate on trying to protect up to two dozen lawmakers who appear to be in the strongest position to fend off their challengers.

My friend Rick Ballard immediately pictured Democratic party leaders "breaking the fingers of those clutching the gunwales," and Nancy Pelosi called for a party redistributionist scheme in which members in safe districts were to redirect their money to vulnerable incumbents. I couldn't figure out who she was talking about because with so many members of the Congressional Black Caucus under indictment or the object of ethics inquiries, who exactly was in a safe district? Still, there must be some. She indicated they had $218 million in their campaign accounts and could help out their colleagues. Of course, those figures might have been compiled by the CBO at the same time as it calculated the savings to be achieved by ObamaCare. In any event, the Democrats had better use what they have because it appears from all credible accounts that the PACs and employees of the nation's biggest businesses have finally awakened from their stupor and are diverting their campaign money spigot from the Democrats to the Republicans.

What only yesterday had been touted as the party (and Obama's) "signature" achievements --ObamaCare and the stimulus package -- were now obvious handicaps to re-election. Bill Clinton who had earlier urged ObamaCare's passage to wavering Congressmen had the nerve to praise Rep. Mike McMahon for his independence and non partisanship in refusing to vote for that Act. Five Democrats who voted against ObamaCare were running on that fact. Not a single incumbent who voted for it was citing support for that "signature" achievement in a campaign ad.

As for the Stimulus throwaway, the party bosses directed candidates never to even use the word "stimulus" in their campaigns.

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I wrote to my friend Professor Charles Lipson at the University of Chicago about my thoughts and he replied that he sees a larger structural problem for the Democrats.

They have no achievements to highlight on the housing mess. Public support for the Pelosi-Reid-Obama legislation has been declining steadily since the laws were passed. Pelosi said the laws needed to be passed so people could find out what is in them. They have and they hate them.

The larger structural problem for the Democrats now is that the American people seem to be rejecting the core elements of liberal politics as ineffective and too costly. Those core elements as they have been advanced since FDR, are:

Centralization of power in Washington, replacing state controls with federal bureaucracies,

Keynesian stimulus packages,

Redistribution beyond a basic safety net, and

High marginal tax rates, if necessary, to pay for it all.

Like me Professor Lipson believes the Republicans, once they win the House, must make their number one agenda item the repeal of ObamaCare. Make the Democrats and Obama vote for it again or "turn tail".

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miles said:

"Electing an official that causes the social, moral, political, and economic decline or collapse of the society that elected him."

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off2bed said:

But, but, but, haven't they changed the definition of "decline"? The decline under Obama is actually an increase if you define it the way Bush did! That would be Kibble's response.

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miles said:

"Electing an official that causes the social, moral, political, and economic decline or collapse of the society that elected him."

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miles said:

It's a decline in the rate of decline.

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Babalugats said:

But, Bush left him with such a mess to clean up.

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Frisco_Slug_Esq said:

When all else fails find a victim and blame Republicans...

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off2bed said:

"A minority in Congress are holding up progress."

Huh?

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WriterDom said:

Sounds ridiculous. Which is why the administration is throwing the election this time around.

Then in 2012, Obama can run as the reform candidate!

"We were on the right track until those pesky republicans took over congress. Change and Hope! Barack Hussein Obama MMMM MMMM MMMM!"

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WriterDom said:

Sounds ridiculous. Which is why the administration is throwing the election this time around.

Then in 2012, Obama can run as the reform candidate!

"We were on the right track until those pesky republicans took over congress. Change and Hope! Barack Hussein Obama MMMM MMMM MMMM!"

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miles said:

"Electing an official that causes the social, moral, political, and economic decline or collapse of the society that elected him."

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