I’m dreading the Summer, and not just because I sweat like a glass of ice water in an un-airconditioned New Orleans motel room in a 1980s Mickey Rourke movie. I just watched Claire McCaskill on the Today show hyper-spinning the senate vote on the financial reform bill. What was depressing wasn’t that she was particularly bad, but that she was particularly typical. “Republicans don’t even want us to debate the bill!” etc. With the midterms coming and the stakes so high, nearly every politician in both parties is going to be in Schumer mode — i.e. spinning to the point of risking scrotal torsion.
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I read this in the New York Times this morning: Despite the protests, despite the months of cable television denunciations, despite their warnings that Democrats would be massacred at the polls in November, despite their concerted effort to attack the measure from nearly every conceivable angle, Republicans ultimately found themselves powerless to stop it. The first two people I encountered at the Saturday protests on the Hill? Registered Democrats.
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It’s getting hard to estimate possible GOP gains in 2010, as nearly every seat seems to be in play. Republican candidates are showing surprising financial strength in Congressional districts held by Democrats in the Northeast that party leaders have singled out as ripe for what could be critical gains in the November election. Some of the most competitive races are taking shape in the New York metropolitan region… The promising financial picture for individual Republican candidates suggests that the midterm elections in the Northeast, a Democratic stronghold, may turn out to be far more competitive than expected, forcing Democrats to play defense on what is essentially their home turf.
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Less than 15 hours after President Obama promised a three-year freeze on non-defense discretionary spending, Senate Democrats went and killed the dream. With their 43 “no” votes, they blocked a bipartisan provision on Thursday that would have allowed only 1 percent spending growth in the categories President Obama intended. Without even giving Republicans a chance to obstruct, congressional Democrats did it themselves. They repudiated not only the president’s spending freeze and his call to fiscal responsibility, but also nearly every positive hope he expressed in his State of the Union Address for change in Washington.
How scared are the Democrats in Massachusetts? They’re running an attack at in nearly every ad break in the local news, and they’ve loaded up on cable channels, too. But as a guy who spent six years running campaigns, I just saw something I’ve never seen before: Back-to-back attack ads in the same break. First a “Scott Brown hates your children” spot from the DSCC, then Coakley’s own “Scott Brown is an evil Republican” spot. They have saturated the airwaves with so many attack spots, they’re literally running out of places to run them.
This is a damning piece with a montage of nearly every Democrat in Washington promising transparency in the health care negotiations followed up by a litany of news pieces showing how full of horse-pucky they really are. These kinds of videos are a nice backdrop for the arguments next year that the Dems are mired in corruption and must be bodily thrown from office. Not only have the promises of transparency proven to be utterly fallacious, it is during those very back-room negotiations that they make the deals to bankrupt the country and trample individual freedoms.
