Anti-Dem Propaganda Watch #8 - "A Stark Year for Democrats"

[TomCADem]

Anti-Dem Propaganda Watch #8 - "A Stark Year for Democrats"

Here is more corporate media propaganda for those of you to make the case that President Obama should move either to the left or the right. Is it just a coincidence that all this "analysis" sounds so familiar. What ever happened to anti-plagiarism standards?

Embrace the brainwashing! Embrace the pessismism! There is no escaping the omni-present reach of the corporate media narrative, so why full ourselves when we repeat these talking points, and call it original thought?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/05/a_stark_year_for_democrats_107018.html

Plenty of people are driving cars they don't want or, worse still, living in homes they can't afford. That's a natural part of a consumer society, especially during a recession. But this fall we may witness a mass example of buyers' remorse in the political world.

Over the years we have constructed shock absorbers to insulate politics from such jolts. Gubernatorial terms, for example, generally lasted only one year in 1780 -- but gradually grew to two years and now, with the exception of New Hampshire and Vermont, are four years long.

But the House of Representatives was built with two-year terms for a reason: to be the barometer that measures both the pressures on the public and the pressures exerted by the public. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison favored a three-year term, but the delegates settled on two years, in part, as Roger Sherman of Connecticut was quoted in the official notes of the proceedings, to assure that the representatives would not "acquire the habits of the (capital) which might differ from those of their constituents."

Today, virtually no Democrat feels comfortable and confident in his House seat, especially since a Gallup poll of congressional voting preferences released the other day showed Republicans with a 10-point lead -- the largest in the 68 years in which the organization has tracked midterm elections. It is double the gap the Republicans had as they headed into the 1994 elections, when they captured both houses of Capitol Hill for the first time in four decades.

[TheWraith]

1. Rec to counter the unreccer attack.

And kick so that people actually look at this stuff and realize the source of all the negativity that's been flowing around. And if anyone thinks that DUers aren't lapping this stuff up, a trip though GD should change your mind.

[TomCADem]

2. The Irony Is That If I Posted This Without The Propaganda Label...

...I probably would get a lot of recs. My whole point in all this is just to highlight the uniform lemming like nature of these types of "analysis." How can you avoid integrating such viewpoints into your own view?

[TheWraith]

3. Yep. There's almost nothing DUers love better than bashing Democrats.

And a day later, we're still the only people who care.