Quantum Windbag
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I think it is time for moderate Democrats to wake up to the fact that their leaders are headed for a major disaster in 2014.
Ted Van Dyk: My Unrecognizable Democratic Party - WSJ.com
Not that the Republicans party PTB are looking ahead either, but at least some of newer members are looking toward the future.
As a lifelong Democrat, I have a mental picture these days of my president, smiling broadly, at the wheel of a speeding convertible. His passengers are Democratic elected officials and candidates. Ahead of them, concealed by a bend in the road, is a concrete barrier.
They didn't have to take that route. Other Democratic presidents have won bipartisan support for proposals as liberal in their time as some of Mr. Obama's are now. Why does this administration seem so determined to head toward a potential crash and burn?
Even after the embarrassing playout of the Obama-invented Great Sequester Game, after the fiasco of the president's Fiscal Cliff Game, conventional wisdom among Democrats holds that disunited Republicans will be routed in the 2014 midterm elections, leaving an open field for the president's agenda in the final two years of his term. Yet modern political history indicates that big midterm Democratic gains are unlikely, and presidential second terms are notably unproductive, most of all in their waning months. Since 2012 there has been nothing about the Obama presidency to justify the confidence that Democrats now exhibit.
Ted Van Dyk: My Unrecognizable Democratic Party - WSJ.com
Not that the Republicans party PTB are looking ahead either, but at least some of newer members are looking toward the future.