Right off the bat I have to confess that I don’t get the hysteria behind today’s Massa…Masu… heck, you know which special election I’m talking about. I don’t believe the buck stops at a bad democratic candidate (and she is bad) who took the voters of Masser…that great blue state for granted.
But I do think the question of why Barack Obama, the best chance for the
Democratic party to undo the damage caused by the Republicans and build the foundations for a “democratic revolution” is now sitting at a lowly 50% in the polls, despised by his own party and has apparently got his whole agenda under threat?
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I can only think of one answer to this proverbial blame game. It’s not Obama/Democrates/Republicans/ Economy. I think this whole mess of selling Obamacare, Democrats losing their collective minds and in turn losing a Kennedy State (Massachusetts!) can be hung on Howard Dean’s head.
Yes I said it!
Now I don’t know whether Mr Dean was upset that he wasn’t given a major role in the Obama administration or maybe he felt he was cast aside after leading the DNC to a historic victory in 2008, but his declaration on the Rachel Maddow’s show was the excuse that every republican needed to say, “Look even democrats agree with us that this plan is (*insert accusation*).”
Now I believe that Howard Dean acted in good faith and truly believes that nothing was better than the Senate Bill (which I personally find…) but for someone who has been in a leadership position of a large political organisation, he should have understood that clear, uniformed messaging from all sections of the party is what was needed to get this imperfect bill through.
Yes, if I were Mr Dean I would have taken the bad taste of this bill. I would have taken the bill then I would have run for office and worked my whole life to improve it. And to be even more cynical, I would have taken it just to unite the Democratic Party and to present Mr Obama with more political capital so he’d have a fighting chance to pass through his agenda.
But this is where we are today. With a struggling Democratic president, with a splintered Democratic party, with a opposition party that is sp reinvigorated they they might very well take the seat of a Democratic legislative legend.
Well done Mr Dean. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa.
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