Briar Patch Spotted
By Kos! Don Surber explains all, how the Kossacks notice the presidential polling plummet, fret about the Dems’ 2010 prospects and determine that “seems to make passing legitimate health care reform an absolute political necessity for Democrats.”
“By all means do,” comments Surber.
Look, I’m not going to stoop to making cheap jokes about whether there is anything “legitimate” or anything like “reform” about what they are up to now. The party that controls House, Senate and White House is well ahead of the Kos curve and has been focused for some time on passing anything that will make it look like they are capable of passing something. It’s a pretty frightful dilemma, one heck of a GOP briar patch, because they can’t not pass something, they probably can’t pass anything, and whatever they do manage to pass will probably croak them.
I vote for the former, not passing anything. My greatest concern in all of this is that, in their desperation to accomplish anything at all, for the simple purpose of having appeared to have accomplished something, they will saddle us with a stapled-together monstrosity that will be immediately disruptive and destrcutive, causing damage mid-recession that will be very difficult to reverse, as will the monstrosity itself once enacted.
I don’t want to think about that. Too horrible to contemplate, and whatever it is going to be, it’ll be here soon enough. I’d rather fast forward to some future from which we can look back at the political curiosity that was the first decade of the 21st century.
It’s fascinating. I’m beginning to get the sense that the overarching political lessons will have to be mined from how a wildly unpopular and reviled Republican president, always accused of charging off boneheadedly on his own, repeatedly managed to get bipartisan support for his initiatives, while lining up allies to advance American interests overseas and moving ahead with his top priorities; while the wildly popular Democratic president, subject of unprecedented adoration, has been unable to accomplish anything with his own party — except when giving them carte blanche to lard their own pantry – while managing to alienate old allies and accomplish nothing with the rest of the world, unless you count drawing yawns and snickers. And the smug appreciation of assorted despots.
Yeah, yeah, I know. We’ll probably all be long dead and gone before historians are ready to consider that.
OK, about the dire poll news and the Dem “enthusiasm gap,” here’s the Kos post.
Here’s the Moderate Voice, where all of GOP weaknesses and Dem strengths of 2008 apparently are immediately reversed in the face of bad poll numbers.
All very interesting. Surrender enthusiasts gearing up for capitulation? Well, what did you expect …
Here’s Winger Comics with the unkind political cartoon of the day. O, the cruel hurtfulness!
For purposes of review, Malkin with the Turkeys of the Year.
Related, Gateway with another one of the things life-saving things American health care does better than Eurocare. Also, Hoft regrettably stoops to using Pelosi’s words against her: Dems blew billions and voters are PO’d because “they’re not getting anything for it.”
In other worm-turnage news, via HotAir, “NYT: Obama’s an amateur.”
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:44 am Comments (2) on Saturday, November 28, 2009
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November 28th, 2009 at 11:05 am
[...] Jules Crittenden reminded me why we should still oppose Obamacare. Duly noted. How come FDR and LBJ — both of whom had larger majorities in Congress — [...]
November 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am
It would help if going forward, administrations would have more private sector experience in the cabinet.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Less-than-10-percent-of-Obama-cabinet-has-private-sector-experience-73911212.html