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ABC's Dan Harris on Saturday offered some odd spin in the debate over
the Tea Party. The weekend Good Morning America co-host argued that
"complacency" was the big risk for Democrats "gleeful" over the
anti-big government protesters. Harris suggested, "But some Democrats,
including some people in the White House, seem to be verging on gleeful
when it comes to the rise of the Tea Party, because the logic seems to
be, some of these people have said such extreme things in the past,
that they're gonna be easier to beat." [more, MRC]
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What to make of this spate
of left media babbling about "Republicans fearful of election
results ..." or, like Harris, Democrats gleeful about prospects to the
point of overconfidence? None of it is remotely tied to
reality (so what else is new?). I think, certainly, a DNC talking
point memo was issued to network heads, about keeping a confident
demeanor in the face of what is certain to be a disastrous election for
them. Lower echelon types, like Harris, then all went to
the same upper West-Side dinner party, and in that cloistered
environment came away believing this crap was gospel. There
is no critical thinker in the lot.
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The last I heard was that, on the generic ballot, Reps had a small lead over Dems. Dems are up in Dem districts and Reps are way up in Rep districts. The big difference is that it looks like a Rep blowout in tossup districts and perhaps most of middle America. The fact that Bill Clinton is trying to save Barney's ass shows that the smart Dems think they have to deploy their resources in safe Dem districts to stem the tide.
ReplyDeleteThe reason that many are gleeful is that they do not know or talk to anybody who doesn't think like them.
Laurence
David Solway:
ReplyDeleteAmerica wants its kids back, whether they be callow students agitating for the millennium, feminists frozen in their adolescent past, journalists still in mental diapers, social toddlers gorged on entitlement pablum, intellectual tantrum-throwers crying for the teat, and, of course, the squalling pack of baby boomers retiring into their second kindergartens.
The road home will be enormously difficult but the U.S. is now so close to the abyss that there is, quite simply, no choice in the matter. Reality always grates against the saccharine pipe dream. The pied piper must be sent packing and his lulling come-hithers decisively repelled should he ever reappear. Otherwise, a meager destiny awaits a once-great nation and the rats that the piper presumably came to exterminate will, as Browning puts it, bite the babies in their cradles and lick the soup from the cook’s ladles.