In four weeks, four incumbent, long-serving Democratic Congressmen -- John Tanner, Brad Gordon, Dennis Moore, and Brian Baird -- have all announced their retirements.All of the seats will be tough for the Democrats to defend in 2010. It certainly appears that the Pelosi-Schakowsky-Waxman wing of the Democrat Party has pushed the entire party and its legislative agenda so far to the left that moderate Democrats are giving up the fight.
In the Rasmussen poll today, the approval-disapproval score for President Obama has hit an all-time low: 44% approve, 55% disapprove with 24% strongly approving, and 42% strongly disapproving. Despite the most favorable press coverage ever for any new president, Obama's approval scores are lower than those for any other new president since these polls began. The last three national surveys on support for Obamacare: 40-56 in Rasmussen, 34-61 by CNN/Opinion Dynamics, and 34-57 by Fox.
The Democrats may try to blame their failure to pass health care reform, if it occurs, on Joe Lieberman. But the failure will be their own: they could not convince the American people that their monstrously complex and expensive proposal ($2.5 trillion in the first ten years after benefits kick in) was necessary.
What do these 'moderate' Democrats know? That they each have a giant serving fork sticking in their back.
More of Richard's analysis is available at Pajamas Media.
2 comments:
Y'know, the weird thing is, if these Dems would just grow some and disagree with Pelosi/Reid/Obama, they could actually convince their constituents that they are worth holding on to.
It makes you wonder how dedicated Democrats are to serving their party, over serving the American people.
"It makes you wonder how dedicated democrats are to serving their party, over serving the American people.
One needs only to recall/review actions, rhetoric and behavior of democrats regarding Iraq. Despite the best efforts of democrats, we won that one.
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