The “best and the brightest” have stuck a fork in Martha Coakley, grandly leaking their super-smart, new, we’re brighter than you strategy for when Coakley gets hammered to The Politico. They plan to get tough, see?
President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.
“This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt,” a senior administration official said. “It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.”
A defeat by Martha Coakley for the seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy would be embarrassing for the party — and potentially debilitating, since Democrats will lose their filibuster-proof, 60-vote hold on the Senate.
A potential casualty: the health care bill that was to be the crowning achievement of the president’s first year in office.
Great idea. Continue with your agenda when the voters have repudiated it. That’s a winner for the Democrats in Congress facing those voters in less than a year. I’m sure they’ll all be happy to climb on board that Titanic and rearrange the deck chairs for the Wizard of O.
The amateur munchkins the Wizard brought in somehow think its a real smart idea to announce their expectation that Coakley will lose and publicly plan how to proceed with her beaten. No, that is really what passes for political acumen in the White House. (Perhaps that should be “Emerald House”.)
They appear to seriously believe that a loss in Massachusetts will make Republicans toe their line on their agenda. No, really, they do. Go read the whole article.
Their confident predictions will at least give you a good laugh.
Scary smart “master plan”
1000 pardons if a double post:
Not only is tomorrow’s MA Senate election a referendum on Obama and the Congressional democrats’ socialist agenda it is a referendum on the games the democrats have played for decades on the lazy American voters. We/They have learned a lot in just a year … Now it’s time for us to school the politicians.
Impulse power, Scotty! Punch it!
“Great idea. Continue with your agenda when the voters have repudiated it. That’s a winner for the Democrats in Congress facing those voters in less than a year. ”
No need to face the voters when you have a job waiting for you at an insurance company or GE or in the health-care bureaucracy (118 new agencies, boards, etc.) Now its just obvious.
Using the logic that a Coakley loss will make the repubs more malleable, does that mean that an immense loss of seats by the dems would make Obamacare a certainty?
A commenter at Maggie’s says the voting in Mass is supervised by dems and they count the votes. He thinks Brown has no chance.
‘Great idea. Continue your agenda when the voters have repudiated it.” A commenter at Belmont Club likens the coming push by the dems on Obamacare to a Banzai charge.
It’s one thing for Democrats to puff up and spout arrogant trash talk while the election is undecided, talk is cheap. What they have to say if the cold reality of bitter defeat is hanging around their necks like an albatross will determine their fate in 2010.
The Politio headline should read “Obama plans a MORE combative turn.” Holy cow I never seen a more combative turn to get what little done that they have done. If they get more, they might start getting more in return.
The Democrats still can’t seem to get it through their heads that their agenda is the problem. They can’t seem to understand that what the voters voted for – the outright lies Obama told during the campaign – are the change the voters expected to see. They got into office and immediatly started rolling out their REAL agenda and people are looking at it and saying ‘this isn’t what I voted for’ and are getting very angry. This is why they lost two special gubernatorial elections and why they are likely to lose today’s election. More than ever before I think this shows that the liberals really do live in their own little world that has very little relationship with reality.
I had to alugh later in the aricle when an admin official said, “It adds to the pressure on Republicans to participate in the process in a meaningful way, which so far they have refused to do.” I think they really believe that. The fact that they deliberately excluded Republicans, held meetings behind closed doors to which no Republican was invited, held meetings at the White House to which no Republican was invited somehow demonstrates in their minds that Republicans are refusing to participate. The logic, or lack of it, is startling. It’s like getting mad at a classmate for not coming to your birthday party when he not only wasn’t invited but was specifically told to stay away.
“Progressive politics” only means progress for lefties gaining power and control.