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Yeah, how’s that “change we

Resistance — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:05:05 +0000

In reply to Boy does that sound like

Yeah, how’s that “change we can believe in” working out?

Then wonder why there's an enthusiasm gap?

Not too much enthusiastic with more BS

Republican lite? No thank you.

Not much of a future there.

Boy does that sound like

trkingmomoe — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:32:50 +0000

In reply to It's not just an enthusiasm

Boy does that sound like Reganomics. Are you sure you are talking about Obama reality gap?

It's not just an enthusiasm

Resistance — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:34:33 +0000

In reply to Countering the Enthusiasm Gap

It's not just an enthusiasm gap it’s a reality gap.

The message insults the intelligence of the working class.

Recently I heard Obama say, the republicans want to cut education and we need this education for FUTURE JOBS.

Future JOBS…… give us a break. The future jobs will be filled with immigrants with visas, because they work so much cheaper. Engineers from India

Aren’t those the ones Bill Gates thinks are so wonderful, while our present engineers are laid off?

Hooray! were all going to get a college degree for the available jobs of the future, all 26 million of us.

It must have been a democratic wordsmith to say it was solely a enthusiasm gap, it's more like Obama has a reality gap. Keep talking happy talk while the rest of the population knows your full of it.

The rest of the nation is so unsure of the future; in fact a majority of Americans feel we are headed in the wrong direction now, because they fear the future, under corporate rule.

The working class knows were screwed, and Obama's trying to polish the turd,

Future Jobs? What slinging Hamburgers?

In debt up to our eyeballs with student loans?

Just like housing, you paid 100’s of thousands and it’s worth less.

You paid thousands for an education and you owe more than you’ll ever make.

Man, that's depressing. True.

Orlando — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:40:24 +0000

In reply to But any Democratic vote this

Man, that's depressing. True. But depressing.

Good to see you at Dag!

But any Democratic vote this

Dan Kervick — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:36:04 +0000

In reply to Countering the Enthusiasm Gap

But any Democratic vote this time is likely to be a predominantly defensive one.

That's for sure. It's pretty damn hard to get enthusiastic about these Dems on their own merits.

My local Dem US Senate candidate is running around trying to convince everybody that he is the "true fiscal conservative", and is busy voting against all of the stimulatory spending projects that come up in Congress. And he's not even a blue dog from the party's right wing, but a moderately liberal US Representative in the middle of the Democratic Party. You can't even get these cats to stand up for the smart things they did. They're running away from their Keynesian votes, and have now dicovered the joys of Republican-style fiscal austerity and belt-tightening.

I'm going to vote for the guy, and promised a campaign worker I know that I would write a supportive letter to the paper. But I'm having a hard time figuring out what to write that won't come off as damning with faint praise. I'll mostly write about what a horror show Republican rule will be.

It's pretty amazing to me that even in the deepest and most dangerously contractionary recession since the Great Depression, a sellers market for left-wing economic ideas if there ever was one, we have a Democratic party that can't sell its own classic economic philosophy, and is now on the defense and in full retreat against the forces of unapologetic hyper-Hooverism.

Okay Coates, good post. I

Richard Day — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:49:21 +0000

In reply to Countering the Enthusiasm Gap

Okay Coates, good post. I could write three pages on this the issues brought forth in this essay.

I wish to keep my response to What ifs:

What if 420 bills passed by the House were not sitting in limbo due to the actions of 40 or 41 Senators who follow the orders of the RNC?

What if just half of those had passed and become law?

What if the repubs had not filibustered more in 20 months than any other political party had ever filibustered in two or three times that period of months?

What if 'senate protocols' has not been so abused by the repubs over the last 20 months?

What if the financial institutions had used their immense profits by investing in the economy instead of purchasing their own stock? Of course they do not wish to invest in an economy controlled by Dems.

That does not mean of course that the dems failed to use some tools at their disposal like when the repubs threatened to get rid of the filibuster five or six years ago.

What is is, what is not is not!!

Woulda, shoulda, coulda...