‘I’m running like I’m 20 points behind and I’ll continue to run like I’m 20 points behind.” Pat Toomey, running against Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately for Benedict Arlen, Toomey is currently in the lead in that race. By rather a lot.
Campaigning across the state, Toomey says he’s hearing time and again that it’s Washington’s “lurch to the left” that “Pennsylvanians don’t like.” The bailouts and ObamaCare are both flashpoints. The effort to pass the “card-check” bill to ease union organizing is a loser for Specter, too, even in this union-friendly state. Above all, Toomey reports, voters are asking the government, Why aren’t you focused on the economy?
And I think that is going to be the real issue this fall. I will wager that it will be even worse for the Democrats if they succeed in ramming their health care “reform” through. If they have any brains at all, they will begin opposing Obama’s agenda and control their spending urges while trying to get the economy back on track.
Which is why I fully expect a debacle for them in November. I don’t think they can rein in the mad spending. They simply do not get it that the spending and the debt and the lack of interest in turning the economy around is what people are angry about. Americans hate the health care bills passed so far, but they loathe the ruin of the economy.
But the Democrats can’t quit wasting time on Obama’s rotten ideas and idiotic economic theories.
