Congressional Dems Will Lose In 2008?

We strongly doubt this, however it does point to the furstration of progressives. liberals and anyone else who honestly believed, on election night, that the Democrats really had a workable majority.

They do not.

Democrats Have Lost 2008 - Wonder if they know
A. Alexander,
May 31st, 2007


A political party's base wins or loses elections. The Republicans figured that out more than 40 years ago. Democrats, incredibly, remain stubbornly and willfully ignorant. One is left to wonder whether or not the Democratic Leadership Council-sponsored (DLC) DC Democrats have realized yet, that their unfettered war-funding disaster has already cost them the 2008 Congressional elections?

Probably not, because the DC Democrats have condemned themselves to the DLC's delusional belief that a nonexistent entity called the "sensible center" wins and loses elections. The "sensible center" concept sounds great and would be purely wonderful...if it actually existed. It doesn't exist...well, except for in the mind of the delusional DLC.

The nonexistent "sensible center" is the same "sensible center" that the DLC told Democrats the party needed to placate in order to win in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004 - each year, of course, proved a stunning Congressional election defeat for the Democratic Party.

Only in 2006, when the base physically disconnected the DC Democrats from the DLC's grip, did the party experience victory.

Unfortunately, DC Democrats appear to be addicted to the DLC and, by default, to losing. The truly unforgivable transgression wasn't so much that the Democrats surrendered to Mister Bush on funding for the Iraq War, as much as it is that they recklessly and foolishly entered into a political battle that they had no intention of trying to winning.

Worse yet, Democrats entered into the game of political chicken pretending that they were actually going to stand up to a stubborn, despised, and dangerous president. And that was never their plan.

It was, perhaps, one of the most amateurish and reckless political gambits ever witnessed in the history of the United States.

Politics is often about expectations. A party usually tries to lower expectations when they know a cause is lost and conversely, parties make an effort to rev up expectations when they know victory is certain. In their pretended fight with Mister Bush over war-funding, Democrats went out of their way to heighten expectations.

On several occasions, the Democrats had assured the nation that Mister Bush would receive "no more blank checks." And then, when the dust settled, the Democrats wrote Mister Bush a blank check.The Democratic Party's war-funding scheme was disingenuous, incompetently handled and amateurish in conception and execution. At the end of the day, all the Democrats managed to do was alienate their base. And in the doing, they lost the 2008 elections.

One wonders whether or not that reality has yet occurred to the DLC-sponsored DC Democrats?


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