Yesterday, North Dakota Democrat Senator Byron Dorgan announced that he will not be seeking re-election. Chris Dodd, who faces the fight of his life for his Connecticut Senate seat, is expected to announce his "retirement" today. If Dodd were to seek another term, the odds are much higher that a Republican would win the seat. These jobs, it would appear, could not be saved.
This would be a good time to stop and consider what a Democrat-run government has accomplished in the last year. So far, Dems' own best description of their achievements comes down to, "Thanks to us, it wasn't worse." It's the same reasoning behind "jobs saved," only extended to include everything else that didn't get better, too -- which is to say everything.
And it looks like that's going to be the Dems' principal 2010 campaign strategy, as well. Fox reported that they plan to campaign against George W. Bush again. This tells me that the Dems don't expect any demonstrable improvements that they can take credit for. Instead, we're gonna have to take their word for how much better the existing misery is, this coming November, compared to what we would have had with four more hypothetical years of Bush.
Now, it's one thing to have grand plans and high hopes, and then later point back at your good intentions in retrospect, and claim that at least you minimized the damage. But it's really something else to look forward to the 10 months remaining before the election, and know in advance that you're going to run on mitigating your failures.
With 10 months to go, Dems have time to actually alter their strategy; time to make improvements. Instead, they're digging in to defend something -- something that they already know is going to create a lot of very unhappy voters.
The Dems are already planning for how unhappy you're going to be about the loss of so much liberty. But then, your happiness is not what they want -- it's the liberty they're after. And what Dems are saying, about freedom and happiness, is that it's easier to take your freedom and then just tell you that you're happy.
The truth is, I don't know whether it's more amazing to marvel at how stupid liberals think we all are, or to marvel at how often they're proven right.
This has to be stopped.
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