Greenwald, who posted a response to Gibbs on Salon.com that proves there is reason to compare Obama to Bush, said in the interview, "It's not exactly uncommon for White Houses to become very insular and adopt these siege bunker mentalities at all times where they think any critics are irrational and outrageous and they deserve nothing but gratitude and thanks from the public. They don't usually admit it quite as candidly as Robert Gibbs did. At least they haven't since Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew but this is a common sentiment for White Houses to have."
Ratigan asked Hamsher, "Is there a calculation here, and the calculation is that the lefties are going to vote for him anyway? So you know what? Screw them. We don't need to do what they tell us. We don't need to accommodate what they want. We don't have to listen to their nonsense because what are they going to do, vote for Sarah Palin?
To which Hamsher said, "If that's what he's thinking, then it's clear why Robert Gibbs is not working in the political strategy department. If you look at what happened in Connecticut last night, only 20% of the Democratic electorate turned out in the primary. That's down from 43% for the primary in 2006. That's disastrous numbers fro Democrats and we're seeing the fruition of Rahm Emanuel's strategy of trying to corral corporate donations for Democrats by essentially becoming Republican, and it has disappointed the electorate."
An Odd Manifestation of a Midterm Election Message That Voters Should Fear Republicans?
Sheldon Wolin illuminates in Democracy, Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism how more and more the President of the United States functions as a CEO and the Congress shareholders whose chief concern is that the country head in the right direction. And those shareholders who appear to influence the "independent supervisory power to which the CEO is theoretically responsible" are at the mercy of investors who decide whether they are worth keeping as a shareholder of this country or not.
The flight of cash from campaign coffers the Democratic Party regularly dips into to Republican Party campaign coffers along with the enthusiasm gap among Democratic voters is huge.
When the White House thinks about what would trigger Democratic voters to be unenthusiastic, they likely assume voters are either watching cable television and getting the wrong idea or are reading Internet blogs and getting the wrong idea.
It's times like these that the Democratic Party has to remind the left what their role is, a role they most often have no problem playing; that's the role of political slave, civic adolescent, foot soldier, etc.
The public knows that the Democrats chief ally in winning elections in recent history has been now former president George W. Bush. He and other Republicans who would continue Bush policies have been the boogeymen that remind liberals to get to the polls. Democrats are already on the campaign trail reminding progressives of what they will surely get if Democrats do not get re-elected and maintain control of the House and Senate.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
2
1
1
