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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
is that Americans don't even know what it is. It is this huge secret document being negotiated behind closed doors with special interests. The average American who pays attention to politics could not tell you much about it.
What results is a feeling of helplessness and frustration. "Those bastards are going to pass this, whatever it is, and we are just going to have to deal with it." Democrats misread the "quiet" as "silent support." Wrong. It's angry frustration that in the case of Scott Brown, led to boiling over rage.
Now we can do something!!! They have unleashed the beast.
One of the pundits last night said that he talked to Republican operatives who found that the polls really started changing when the deals were cut with Nelson and Landrieu. It was clear to independents that deals were not being cut to benefit Americans, but to benefit limited constituencies at the expense of the nation as a whole.
WE DON'T LIKE HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE. MOREOVER, WE DON'T LIKE THE SAUSAGE EITHER!!!!!!
Obama, has thus failed on both counts. He promised he would change how politics works--the process. His first mistake was hiring Rahm Emanuel. Chicago backroom sharp-elbows politics. Secondly, Obama chose not to govern as a moderate. He decided to cater to his liberal base. Obama, in his heart of hearts, thinks if the liberal agenda were passed, the middle will come around and see the wisdom of it. In other words, he is a delusional ideologue. Sure there are the also-delusional minions characterized by people like Cali. But some of these democrats are going to bail, due to simple self-preservation.
Double down. Funny. That's like suicide with two bullets instead of one.
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The backroom dealing has hurt Obama's image and runs counter to his claim, which many neophytes accepted.
He has also ignored voters concerns for economic maladies.