Interviewed on ABC's This Week, Nancy Pelosi is urging Blue Dogs to support the liberals' reconciliation plans even if it means losing their jobs.
I've always been fascinated by the total liberal disconnect between their policies and what voters want. Even if liberals believe they're giving voters what they "need," if it's not what voters actually want then the libs' campaign promises were obviously lies. That liberals were lying yesterday is confirmed by what they say today.
I do believe that conservatives do something similar, but it's not equivalent. Yes, half the country doesn't really doesn't understand what's best for them. But if you give it to them anyway the results will speak for themselves on election day. After Reagan passed divisive tax cuts he was re-elected in a landslide. The success of the policy proved Reagan right. And not just because he thought it was better for some voters than they thought it was, but because voters were measurably better off with the policy than they thought they'd be.
In his closing remarks at the healthcare summit, Obama hinted Democrats would proceed down their unpopular course and allow their judgement to be tested on election day. That's a reasonable principle, especially if you believe that Democrats' decision today will be vindicated by their re-election in November. Maybe Obama actually believes that.
But it's rather different when Pelosi admits that the decisions made today will cost Dems jobs in November. Your voters don't just disagree with this now -- they aren't going to like this by election day, either, she tells Dems. But don't listen to them -- listen to my voters instead.
No kidding. They definitely are on a kamikaze mission. Success is not representing the people. Success is ramming through the ideological and yes, Bolshevik plot.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!" Easy for you to say, kemo sabe! The president isn't up for re-election until 2012.
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Posted by: ConservativeLibertine | 02/28/2010 at 06:16 PM