Boehner will fail, and Democrats will pounce in 2012

[babsbunny]

Boehner will fail, and Democrats will pounce in 2012

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1108/Boehner-will-fail-and-Democrats-will-pounce-in-2012

Republicans didn't sweep these elections for grand ideological reasons, but because not enough of the Democratic base showed up to vote. Exit polls also show that angry voters who flocked to Republicans will end up disappointed in their actual policies. And in 2012, Democrats will be ready.

By Markos Moulitsas Zúniga / November 8, 2010
Berkeley, Calif.

The 2010 elections have come and gone, and Democrats found out what happens when they neglect their base and fail to deliver jobs for the American people.


First things first, the exit polls tell us what this election was not. It was not an embrace of the Republican Party. As counterintuitive as it sounds, the voter opinion of the Republican Party (42 percent favorable) was less favorable than that of the Democratic Party (43 percent favorable). Yet 23 percent of those who viewed the GOP unfavorably still voted for them anyway.

[Radical Activist]

1. Of course.

The question is how much damage will be done by them in the next two years. The delay of action on climate change is perhaps the most disastrous.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Q: "WHERE ARE THE JOBS BONER?!?" --> A: "India and China... now watch this drive."

[AnArmyVeteran]

12. SwampRat, you keep outdoing yourself! Great job!

[treestar]

3. It's going to be hard to deliver the jobs with an R Congress

Thanks to the "base" for that, I see.

So in the next two years we will deliver the jobs, because we'll listen to our base? :rofl:

[librechik]

4. we'll be so broken we won't be able to, after 2 more years of what we have now

Meanwhile, the Republicans have decided to reapportion the democrats out of the majority position FOREVER. And they have enough govs and legislatures to do it. So we might as well pack it in, we're over. IMO.

[Mudoria]

5. As is usual with Republicans

rhetoric is easy, but governing is beyond them. I expect a 180 in 2012.

[still_one]

6. sorry, but that won't happen. The last election practically insured repukes will control the house

and they have the power to redraw district maps and influence elections for a decade to come

so if anyone thought elections don't matter, they were wrong

[stray cat]

7. How will he fail? Can anything really be pinned on the house alone?

[HughMoran]

8. boner always fails

:evilgrin:

[Taverner]

9. But are they going to pounce by acting and behaving like Republicans?

With 'friends' like those ...ya know

[TheKentuckian]

10. I don't think the writer and the TeaPubliKlans have the same definition of success

Until people stop the pretense that these fuckwits have any intent to govern they will always leave us nonplussed.

[Ted_White]

11. Boehner: Earmark spending will stay!

Wow, the teabagging revolution is in full force....