[quote=pri_dk][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]This is some cool shit going on.[/quote]
Given that, I just don’t see why this particular election is a big deal. Perhaps history will prove otherwise, but I really think we are letting the media over-hype this. [/quote]
We don’t have to wait long to see that your assessment was flawed. You want to know why the MA election was such a big deal? Because voters sent a message that “business as usual” – even when conducted by the party of the president they just elected – will no longer be tolerated.
Before yesterday, the Democratic obsession had been: “Spend, Grow, Tax, Spend, Grow, Tax”. And when voters bemoaned the sour economy, they were told to just have faith and wait for the back-loaded stimulus funds to kick in. When they protested that they were more concerned about jobs than health care, they were told “Shhh Shhh, be quiet, we know what’s good for you.”
But someone just got a wake-up call:
“Democrats see Mass. message: Jobs, jobs, jobs”
“Wounded in Massachusetts, frustrated Democrats on Wednesday urged the White House to focus on jobs and the economy — not the health care overhaul that’s now at risk — and pressed President Barack Obama to more forcefully make their case against Republicans ahead of potentially disastrous elections this fall.
“I would like the Democratic Party as a whole including its leader, the president, to speak clearly about the differences and to define those differences,” Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Democrats’ campaign effort, told The Associated Press. And it’s not just about Republicans and Democrats, he said: “We have to do a much better job of both engaging and delivering to independent voters.
“We need a jobs bill. We need short-term, focused strategies to create jobs, real fast,” said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. “If the dominant message isn’t about jobs and spending, we’ll be making a difficult challenge exponentially more difficult.” At the Capitol, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., declared, “If there’s anybody in this building that doesn’t tell you they are more worried about elections today, you should absolutely slap them.”
