Wednesday - March 22, 2006

You Don’t Say?

In the totally useless advice department, I discovered this headline and almost immediately froze. I thought to myself, “what if the Donks actually see this and decide to follow the advice?” Then after a short pause, I breathed easier as I realized the totally useless Party Of the Jackass (POJ) couldn’t follow their noses, much less good advice. It did scare me there for a minute though ....

Democrats Must Learn to Make Sense to Voters
_{March21, 2006}

(REALCLEAR POLITICS)

For the past several months, I and many other political commentators have been speaking of the “lack of new ideas” of the Democrats in their confrontation with President Bush and the Republican Party.

The inevitable conclusion most readers might draw from the phrase of a “lack of ideas” is an absence of specific proposals such as viable Social Security reform, new education policies, a breakthrough in health-care delivery, and so forth, as if such specifics could alone solve the Democrats’ chronic political problems.

There is a reason why nearly everything the Democrats talk about sounds stale, pompously rhetorical and unappealing to most voters other than their relatively small party base.

This is the compulsive Democratic habit to hold on to the assumptions and language of their past. When Democrats attack “big business,” and the “interests of the rich,” they are merely repeating for the zillionth time a verbal formula that was successfully employed in the 1930s, and last worked effectively in the 1964 presidential election.

When Democrats attack free-trade policies, they assume that employed voters are still the monolith they were up to the 1970s. When Democrats attack tax cuts, they ignore the clear lessons of recent history, beginning with their own icon, President Kennedy (whose tax cuts brought the nation out of recession in 1962).

When Democrats propose vast new health-care spending programs, they forget the budget balancing of their last successful president, Bill Clinton, who produced surpluses and reduced the national debt. In short, the Democrats cannot produce “new ideas” from political content that precludes innovation and problem-solving.

- There’s even more of this earth-shattering news here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/22/2006 at 04:17 PM   
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