From Mark Halperin, writing in Time:
"What has kept the easily panicked denizens of Capitol Hill from open revolt until now was a shared confidence that there was still plenty of time to turn things around, and that the White House had a strategy to do just that. (Comment on this story.)
The two-part scheme was pretty straightforward. First, Democrats planned a number of steps to head off, or at least soften, the anti-Washington, anti-incumbent, anti-Obama sentiment that cost them the Massachusetts seat. Pass health care, and other measures to demonstrate that
Democrats could get things done for the middle class; continue to foster those fabled green shoots on the economy, harvesting the positive impact of the massive economic stimulus bill passed early in the Administration; heighten the contrast between the two parties by delivering on Wall Street reform and a campaign-funding law to counteract January's controversial Supreme Court decision.
Use all of those elements to contrast the Democrats' policies under Obama with the Republicans' policies under Bush, rather than allow the midterms to be a referendum on the incumbent party. "
.... Soooo their plan is basically "Wow, it didn't work, let's do it again only HARDER".
What a work of utter fantasy and self delusion...
We call this "believing your own bullshit".
See, the Democrats really honestly think that "the middle class" is all for their program, and they just aren't executing well enough etc... That the mass of voters frustration is about their inability to get things done.
In reality, the mass of voters are CHEERING because they caren't getting things done. They don't WANT this healthcare boondoggle. They don't want more restrictions on free speech. They don't want more government control and interference in their lives and their businesses.
The far left, and the idiot youth (and yes, they are useful idiots as far as the Democractic political machine is concerned) are disappointed (At best) and riled up (at worst) by the Democrats failures, but they make up a small minority of the voting electorate (no more than 20 percent, and most years a lot less). Most of them are reporting to pollsters that they won't be voting this time around.
The Democrats don't realize, it's not their lack of execution, it's their program itself that's killing them; because "the middle class" recognizes that said program is really going to hurt them, to benefit the non-taxpaying class, and the Democratic political establishment.
"The Middle Class" recognize when someone is trying to steal from them, they don't like it, and when it comes down to protecting their wallets, THEY VOTE. It's why whenever the left wants to pass some big social legislation, they have to lie to the people and tell them that it won't increase THEIR taxes, just those rich fat cats up the hill, and those evil corporations...
Only they've beaten that horse to death now, and the truth is obvious for anyone who wants to look. The lefts agenda will directly hurt the wallet of everyone who actually pays taxes.
The people may be apathetic about most things, and they may be uninformed and unobservant about politics... but they aren't stupid. Hit'em in the wallet, and they will hit back.
