Charlie Cook: Dem situation has 'slipped completely out of control'

[formerlurker]

Charlie Cook: Dem situation has 'slipped completely out of control'

Charlie Cook, one of the best political handicappers in the business, sent out a special update to Cook Political Report subscribers Thursday that should send shivers down Democratic spines.

Reviewing recent polling and the 2010 election landscape, Cook can envision a scenario in which Democratic House losses could exceed 20 seats.

"These data confirm anecdotal evidence, and our own view, that the situation this summer has slipped completely out of control for President Obama and Congressional Democrats. Today, The Cook Political Report’s Congressional election model, based on individual races, is pointing toward a net Democratic loss of between six and 12 seats, but our sense, factoring in macro-political dynamics is that this is far too low," he wrote.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0809/Charlie_Cook_Dem_situation_has_slipped_completely_out_of_control.html

[jtyangel]

someone was saying the other day(maybe Rush) that the test of who you are is when you have power with no restrictions like the dems have now. What they have shown in these summer months is a total lack of respect for anyone with a viewpoint different from theirs. They don't even bother with decorum anymore. They are rude, condescending, and arrogant. They almost paint a parody of the corrupt politician above reproach that everyone loves to hate. They've buried themselves under their own lack of humility that they kept thinly veiled before they took power. I think more then anything, this is what people are marching in droves to town hall meetings against. Healthcare is the issue they are trying to shove without hesitation down our throats, but it is their condescending arrogance imo that continues it. People don't like to be talked down to, especially politicians.

[DumbAss Tanker]

someone was saying the other day(maybe Rush) that the test of who you are is when you have power with no restrictions like the dems have now. What they have shown in these summer months is a total lack of respect for anyone with a viewpoint different from theirs. They don't even bother with decorum anymore. They are rude, condescending, and arrogant. They almost paint a parody of the corrupt politician above reproach that everyone loves to hate. They've buried themselves under their own lack of humility that they kept thinly veiled before they took power. I think more then anything, this is what people are marching in droves to town hall meetings against. Healthcare is the issue they are trying to shove without hesitation down our throats, but it is their condescending arrogance imo that continues it. People don't like to be talked down to, especially politicians.

Unfortunately those of us who were around at the time would have to say Gingrich and the GOP Congressbeasts suffered from an equal excess of hubris in 1994.

[jtyangel]

Unfortunately those of us who were around at the time would have to say Gingrich and the GOP Congressbeasts suffered from an equal excess of hubris in 1994.

yes, well it is a lesson learned on both sides I think. I was 'around' then too..as an adult. I was in my 20's though so I admit not as tuned in to what was going on politically at the time. 

[Eupher]

Unfortunately those of us who were around at the time would have to say Gingrich and the GOP Congressbeasts suffered from an equal excess of hubris in 1994.

I think the excessive hubris at the GOP victory in 1994 might've been the result of a Dem-controlled House since 1952. Gingrich, et. al. had just been released out of their political dungeon and a bit of celebrating, even gloating, could've been expected.

Maybe the gloating simply went on too long.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I think the excessive hubris at the GOP victory in 1994 might've been the result of a Dem-controlled House since 1952. Gingrich, et. al. had just been released out of their political dungeon and a bit of celebrating, even gloating, could've been expected.

Maybe the gloating simply went on too long.

Whatever happened, it led to Newt badly overplaying his hand just a year later in the the great '95 budget showdown, which probably did almost as much as the GOP's bad candidate pick to win Clinton re-election in '96 (No disrespect to Bob Dole, a fine Senator, but just not the guy to put up against a charismatic sociopath who would lie about literally anything for a smile and a nod, like Billy-Jeff).

[Chris_]

And unfortunately, I am unable to draw joy from such pronouncements as I did in the lead up to the '94 defeat of Congressional Communists.  I want the limp-dick Republicans out of Congress just as badly.

[DumbAss Tanker]

And unfortunately, I am unable to draw joy from such pronouncements as I did in the lead up to the '94 defeat of Congressional Communists.  I want the limp-dick Republicans out of Congress just as badly.

Hear, hear!