Obama Finally Gets His Victory For Bipartisanship
Drew Westen
HuffPost
You can blame a bad candidate, bad organization, bad timing of a vacation -- choose your rationalization. But the reality is that voters in Massachusetts were reacting to the same foul mist coming off Boston Harbor that New Jersey Voters smelled coming off the Hudson and Virginia voters off the Chesapeake.
What they all understood was that the source lay on the shores of the Potomac.
It is a truly remarkable feat, in just one year's time, to turn the fear and anger voters felt in 2006 and 2008 at a Republican Party that had destroyed the economy, redistributed massive amounts of wealth from the middle class to the richest of the rich and the biggest of big businesses, and waged a trillion-dollar war in the wrong country, into populist rage at whatever Democrat voters can cast their ballot against.
All of this was completely predictable. And it was predicted. I wrote about it for the first time here on the sixth day of Obama's presidency, and many of us have written about it in the intervening year.
(More here.)
HuffPost
You can blame a bad candidate, bad organization, bad timing of a vacation -- choose your rationalization. But the reality is that voters in Massachusetts were reacting to the same foul mist coming off Boston Harbor that New Jersey Voters smelled coming off the Hudson and Virginia voters off the Chesapeake.
What they all understood was that the source lay on the shores of the Potomac.
It is a truly remarkable feat, in just one year's time, to turn the fear and anger voters felt in 2006 and 2008 at a Republican Party that had destroyed the economy, redistributed massive amounts of wealth from the middle class to the richest of the rich and the biggest of big businesses, and waged a trillion-dollar war in the wrong country, into populist rage at whatever Democrat voters can cast their ballot against.
All of this was completely predictable. And it was predicted. I wrote about it for the first time here on the sixth day of Obama's presidency, and many of us have written about it in the intervening year.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
another blame-bush piece from HuffPost. Would someone please tell Drew Westen that Democrats have been in control of Congress since 2006 and Obama was in the Senate since 2004 and that Bush is no longer in office??? Please, someone, tell these people who live every day with Bush Derangement Syndrome that Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, and - yes - Bill Clinton had their hands on the Freddie and Fannie long before Bush came to office. I have no problem with the war stuff, but both Democrats and Republicans use the government machinery to help entrench their incumbency. The anger in America is over how the current situations are being handled not in who caused them because most of us know that both Democrats AND Republicans share equal blame in the economic calamity in 2008.
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