Craig Crawford and Keith Olbermann expertly explain the institutional barriers to Dems even making the most remote kind of headway.
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Why The Dems Cannot Win
September 21st, 2006
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You know what else is keeping them from making headway? The fact that the economy, despite what the good Representative from NY says, is actually doing quite well. Filled up your car in the last 2 weeks?
I love that Dems complain they can’t get their message out. And to illustrate that … Keith Olbermann plays an extended clip of a Dem’s remarks. Do you guys ever just bask in the irony?
Tell the American people – they say the economy is middling at best. You guys can talk up the economy a million times but as long as people remember the Clinton Boom, the Bush years will pale by comparison. Yes, because one show on cable is a trend.
Such a sudden drop in the price of oil is 100% artificially induced. Period. There is no way the market shifted that much to suddenly create an overnight drop of 25% or so (I believe the drop was from $78 to $60). Look for that price to rebound after the elections. Still, the hilarity in all of this is that Farris and others would have you believe that $60 is a bargain, when less than a decade ago oil was going for 1/2 to 2/3 that much. Even if the price sticks for a while, it’s still a perfect illustration of “shock” conditioning where oil gets inflated to outrageous (to some) prices, only to settle back to elevated but notably lower level and many jump on board that the new price is quite the deal.
Of course, none of this does anything to counter declining wages, increased medical costs, decreases in benefits (both on the corporate, federal, and state levels), and so on.
As usual, reality be damned, the Bush humpers are always up for another trip to the punch bowl.
Oliver,I’m glad you noticed this. I was half paying attention and am not about to watch it again at the moment (that time will come), but when Crawford said that the Dems act like they’re still the majority party and politics is more-or-less what it was like a decade ago (massive paraphrase, I know), I said “that’s just what I’ve been thinking.”
And the clip they played before he said that made me think we need our own Newt Gingrich to shake the ossified old farts up a bit.
It’s dispiriting. Most Dems act like “win some, lose some” is ok — but they lose most of them. In the meantime, good and bad wars-well or ill fought, social security, the economy, and the couuntry as a whole are damaged beyond salvaging.
As my good buddy Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast my friend”.
Filled up your car in the last 2 weeks?
Midterm elections a few weeks away…hmmm. Must be a fluke coincidence, right?