Lame Motto may carry lame DemocraLts
Management guru Tom Peters discredited the use by any business organizations of the motto: “we’re no worse than anyone else.” It appears the Democrats, for all their fumbling, lack of focus and paucity of intestinal fortitude may gain as a result of fitting the mold of this motto. This is because the Thuglicans are losing ground with voters.
According to Kiplinger (5/26/06), K hereafter, American voters are angry and fed up, believing the U.S. government is inept in handling Iraq, Katrina, immigration, spending, and energy policy. Duh? As Bob Herbert was quoted in this Blog, “what took then so long?” K claims the voters want big changes in DC, i.e. solutions not pontification. Thuglicans are expected to lose seats in the 06 Congressionals. K claims Dems have reenergized their party base and recruiting better candidates, more donations. and channeling voter anger at Bush. However, the 15 House and 5 Senate seats needed to regain a majority are unattainable because there won’t be many contestable GOP seats, thanks in great part to redistricting that has given GOP incumbents safe districts. Further, GOP will not be caught napping like the Dems in ’94 and will mount their standard nasty counter campaign. The wild card is Iraq which could help Dems if backlash is powerful. So far we are not impressed. Even if the Dems get close to a majority, gridlock will result. Solutions to problems with languish setting the stage for a reckoning in the ’08 Presidential election. In our view, the key wild card is the economy. The economic data continues to mount on the side of a recession in early ’07, just in time for the Dems in the ’08 Presidential election.
According to Kiplinger (5/26/06), K hereafter, American voters are angry and fed up, believing the U.S. government is inept in handling Iraq, Katrina, immigration, spending, and energy policy. Duh? As Bob Herbert was quoted in this Blog, “what took then so long?” K claims the voters want big changes in DC, i.e. solutions not pontification. Thuglicans are expected to lose seats in the 06 Congressionals. K claims Dems have reenergized their party base and recruiting better candidates, more donations. and channeling voter anger at Bush. However, the 15 House and 5 Senate seats needed to regain a majority are unattainable because there won’t be many contestable GOP seats, thanks in great part to redistricting that has given GOP incumbents safe districts. Further, GOP will not be caught napping like the Dems in ’94 and will mount their standard nasty counter campaign. The wild card is Iraq which could help Dems if backlash is powerful. So far we are not impressed. Even if the Dems get close to a majority, gridlock will result. Solutions to problems with languish setting the stage for a reckoning in the ’08 Presidential election. In our view, the key wild card is the economy. The economic data continues to mount on the side of a recession in early ’07, just in time for the Dems in the ’08 Presidential election.
posted by Anonymous | 10:43 AM
1 Comments:
Given that the Republican majority routinely vote to make everything possible worse, gridlock sounds pretty good to me!
Of course, overturning the GOP majority would be far better.
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