Maybe Not Such a Blowout for the Midterm Elections?

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I am among the group of Obama Democrats who is not excited about the upcoming election.  Nobody's excited about--as the cliche goes--voting for the lesser of two evils.  That cliche is a bit overblown. With no Cheney on the ballot, evil is maybe not quite what we have to vote for.  But Democrats haven't excited me in a while. The irony of course is that Republicans (particularly those of the tea bagger variety) are painting all Democrats big and small as radical, far-left, commie pinkos.  And we Democrats are not excited this go around because we find our slate of candidates too centrist.  Sure, the Dems have managed to get some things done (particularly in the House), but almost never without having watered down their positions to--naively--gather "bipartisan" support for them.  What we end up with is centrist policy, with at best, one or two Republican votes. It's maddening.

But just because I'm not excited to vote doesn't mean I'm not gonna. I'll be there.  And I'm hopeful that the Democrats can use their own "fear card" to get more of us to feel the same way. And I don't mean ginning up xenophobic fears like on the other side, I mean simply pointing out the things Republicans have done and promise to do. Pointing out the slate of crazy pouring out of the tea party (Sharron Angle, hello. . .).  Pointing out that voting against our best interests is stupid.  I don't know if they can do it, I don't know how they should best do it, but they'd best get cracking. 

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Maybe Not Such a Mid-Term Blowout

Winston Churchill once said that you can always count on Americans to do the right thing--after they've tried everything else.


The Obama administration has kept progressive economic policies to be used as a last resort -- In Case of Emergency Break Glass. . .

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