The Audacity of Nope Rewards the Party of No
by Robert Becker | January 22, 2010
SmirkingChimp
Following GOP wins in NJ and VA, the Mass. senate surprise completes a trifecta, enshrined with full-throated chorus by the fickle Audacity of Nope crowd. Nope, nope, and nope - that's one lesson learned when, in Mass. alone, two million Democrats stayed home.
What! - a voting minority from Main Street fed up with "change lobbyists can believe in" or "yes, we can" get ripped off twice by iniquitous bankers, first taking us to the cleaner, risking depression, then insisting we pay for the clean-up and bonuses? No wonder special election voters are "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore." Whatever "it" means.
Replacing Ted Kennedy with a rightwing, torture-backing Republican faking it as an independent returns us to the Reagan fold - that is, Nancy Reagan on drug abuse: Just Say No. In the absence of systemic White House solutions, even sensible acknowledgments of the magnitude and range of challenges, big surprise non-aligned Blue Staters are jumping the Obama ship, crying "Throw the new establishment bums out." The Mass. vote could be, per Arianna Huffington, a blessing in disguise. But not likely, as post-election WH denials attest, with no talk of new personnel or new leadership, just "combative responses" that promise staying the course that clearly isn't working.
(More here.)
SmirkingChimp
Following GOP wins in NJ and VA, the Mass. senate surprise completes a trifecta, enshrined with full-throated chorus by the fickle Audacity of Nope crowd. Nope, nope, and nope - that's one lesson learned when, in Mass. alone, two million Democrats stayed home.
What! - a voting minority from Main Street fed up with "change lobbyists can believe in" or "yes, we can" get ripped off twice by iniquitous bankers, first taking us to the cleaner, risking depression, then insisting we pay for the clean-up and bonuses? No wonder special election voters are "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore." Whatever "it" means.
Replacing Ted Kennedy with a rightwing, torture-backing Republican faking it as an independent returns us to the Reagan fold - that is, Nancy Reagan on drug abuse: Just Say No. In the absence of systemic White House solutions, even sensible acknowledgments of the magnitude and range of challenges, big surprise non-aligned Blue Staters are jumping the Obama ship, crying "Throw the new establishment bums out." The Mass. vote could be, per Arianna Huffington, a blessing in disguise. But not likely, as post-election WH denials attest, with no talk of new personnel or new leadership, just "combative responses" that promise staying the course that clearly isn't working.
(More here.)
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