Trust me, I’m not counting my chickens before they have come home to roost. But it is enjoyable to read the distraught comments from those trying to run away from the wave.
The “wave” is the most recent Gallup poll showing a 10 point generic ballot lead in favor of Republicans, a historic high. I’m not schooled enough to compare that number to real life numbers, but a lot of people on all sides see it as tremendously significant.
I don’t think those about to go swimming understand what has happened, as witnessed by these two posts at Hullabaloo:
I think I was pretty clear in the battle over health care that I respected the opinions of the principled left, even if I disagreed with their principles. I think it would have been healthy (pun intended) to have a national debate over single-payer or Medicare for all or whatever, a debate I am confident we would have won.
Instead, the left was unwilling to join us in stopping Frankenstein-like Obamacare, pushed through by the Harry Reids of the world. As Jay Cost points out, it was Obamacare beyond all else which crystallized the opposition to the Democratic Party, and which started the wave rolling.
Make no mistake, the left brought this on itself, not by being too liberal or not liberal enough, but by allowing itself to be co-opted by the unprincipled, power-hungry, self-aggrandizing Democratic leadership, from Obama on down.
The wave may be coming, and if it does, it will wash away what needs to be washed away, including the illusion that the modern Democratic Party stands for anything.
Update: Jane Hamsher writes:
Rather than focus on jobs creation in a country with climbing unemployment rates, Obama spent the better part of a year focused on passing a health care bill that looks like it will play no small part in the Democratic Party’s upcoming electoral woes.
Well, we warned you
I’m not buying that spin. It is true that Hamsher had some of the most devastating critiques of Obamacare. But when I wrote my Open Letter in January 2010 to Hamsher asking her to join us in defeating Obamacare, there was no response, either directly or indirectly, in words or in action. Instead, Hamsher and others were focused on improving (e.g. public option) not defeating the legislation, an ultimately futiile quest which required a level of subservience to the Democratic leadership in the hope they would come through for you. They didn’t.
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