http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9205097Oh my.
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-26-10 03:45 PM
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Republicans Snatching Defeat Out of the Jaws of Expected Victory
"We are not going to be any different than what we've been." -- John Boehner
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- {snip}
. . . after internal GOP debate and relentless White House goading, Republicans eager to show voters that they're ready to govern and that they stand for something have rolled out a policy agenda of their own. And, perhaps, played right into the Democrats' hands.
House GOP leader John Boehner cast the "Pledge to America" as "a new governing agenda, built by listening to the American people, that offers a new way forward." But he also acknowledged that it lacked specifics on important subjects like Social Security and Medicaid.
Much of it also adhered generally to age-old GOP principles . . .
. . . the GOP's campaign manifesto gives the president's party a potentially valuable tool as it tries cast the midterm elections as a choice that voters must make between two economic visions rather than a referendum on Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress as Republicans want.
With the 21-page GOP document, Democrats now have something to point to as they seek to bolster their claim that Republicans offer nothing more than the same policies of the past. The plan also is filled with material for Democrats to use to draw sharp contrasts with GOP candidates in a campaign that has been tilting the Republicans' way.
read more: http://www.pantagraph.com/news/national/article_cd7cca9...
I dunno what the primitives are so hot and upset about; it's pretty much an ironclad rule that a president during the first mid-term election of his presidency, loses seats in Congress. It's a pretty ironclad rule, and one doesn't see any reason to think an exception will happen here.
The only exceptions, period, have been Franklin Roosevelt in the 1934 mid-first-term elections, and George Bush in the 2002 mid-first-term elections.
Even the first George Bush, after a landslide election in 1988 (a "landslide" is generally defined as 55% or more of the vote; this was the last landslide), couldn't do it in 1990.
Even Ronald Reagan, after a landslide election in 1980 (the biggest one ever), couldn't do it in 1982.
Even Lyndon Johnson, after a landslide election in 1964, couldn't do it in 1966.
Even Dwight Eisenhower, after a landslide election in 1952, couldn't do it in 1954.
Even Warren Harding, after a landslide election in 1920, couldn't do it in 1922.
(And trust me, the Big Zero's much less popular than Warren Harding had ever been.)
And so on and on, back to the beginning of the Republic.
Anyway.
SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-26-10 03:49 PM
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1. Republicons doin what comes naturally: lying and failing as usual for the faux 'conservatives.'
AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-26-10 03:50 PM
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2. If Boner's line isn't used all across the country I'm joining the tea party!
If democrats are so inept they refuse to use Boner's line I'm going to turn my back on them. Democratic leaders have been completely inept and cowardly. If they only used all of the ammo given to them by the republicans they would be slaughtering the republicans this November.
NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-26-10 03:55 PM
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3. They haven't used his line that the financial crisis was an ant and that wall street reform was using a nuclear bomb against an ant... or something like that.
so, millions being thrown out of work and/or into foreclosure is "an ant" to Boehner.
Every Democrat in the country should be using that in an ad...
Well, the blunt fact is, this being the first mid-term election under the Big Zero, the primitives are going to lose.
Who, and how much, only God knows, but the primitives are going to lose.
In case the Devil is listening, franksolich is sticking with his prediction the Republicans will pick up one seat in the Senate, one seat in the House, and one governor's chair somewhere.
