Frank J. explains why the Dems are going to lose at least one house of Congress:
…the Democrats will counter that the Republicans also suck. And while this is true, it’s not really going to help them. As I pointed out before, both a dog incessantly barking and a zombie apocalypse are things that everyone would agree suck. Yet no one during a zombie apocalypse, while hiding out in a boarded up mall, would turn to the other survivors and say, “We don’t want to kill all the zombies; then we’d have to go back to being woken up at night by that annoying dog next door.” But this is the best argument the Democrats can come up with. “Remember how awful the Republicans and Bush were? You hated them. You don’t want to go back to that.” Yes, why would people want to go back to when 6% unemployment was considered high?
People do remember how much the Republicans suck, and they know where it tops out … and that is nowhere near as bad as the Democrats are today. Like with the barking dog, it’s annoying, but you know it’s not going to cause the collapse of civilization as we know it. Not so with the zombie apocalypse; who knows how bad that could get if left to continue? Same with the Democrats and Obama; people have never dealt with anything this horrible their entire lives, and they aren’t that curious to see how much worse it can be.
They really have nothing on which to campaign at this point.
“They really have nothing on which to campaign at this point.”
Oh yes, Rand, they do. Jim “is running” on the merits of George W Bush’s TARP program. Dunno, I think Jim is telling us that we should back Mr. Obama because he is pretty much on the same level as Mr. Bush, that is, barking dog rather than zombie terror level of annoying.
Oh, and Jim reminded us that we are “ignorant.” I think that is pretty much the tack Mr. Obama is using in his campaign rallys, accusing the 50+ percent part of the electorate that thinks he (and Congress) are not doing the right things, of being ignorant.
I know that when politicians tell me I’m ignorant, it immediately makes me want to vote for them.
Or uninformed. I should vote for you because your promo effort is inadequate.
What makes me mad is the superior attitude of our elected offals. How is it that I’m smart enough to vote for Candidate “X” initially, but then I’m suddenly in need of someone to tell me when to wipe my…nose…the 730 odd days in between election days.
And having dealt with both Repugnicons and Democraps after they are elected, they ALL suffer from this Superiority Complex.
OTOH, in California, we welcome our new zombie masters.
I know that when politicians tell me I’m ignorant, it immediately makes me want to
vote forkill them.Fixed it for you.
rickl,
that’s a little strong. How about, “…makes me want to choke the ever living tihs outta them!”…?
Um, no, I don’t want to kill anyone. Smack them upside the head for a while maybe, but not kill them. Many of our Lords and Masters badly need a thwack on the cranium with Homey D. Clown’s sand-filled sock. (Speaking of shows that couldn’t be made today because OMG RACIST. Sigh.)
I’m wondering if we can just tip the scales enough so that any incumbent has a 1 in 5 chance of being tossed out of congress because of their voting records that things will begin to self correct. Hopefully it won’t take a 1 in 3 or a 1 in 2 chance.
Something to bear in mind here is that the New Democrat program was conceived and implemented largely by a seriously inbred Democratic leadership, people like Pelosi, Frank, Schumer and Dodd whose seats have (at least heretofore) been absolutely safe for as left as you want to go. Tom Bevan had a nice analysis at RCP a while ago pointing out that because of the Democratic Party’s oddly strong public sector union-like (ha) “seniority” rules, the leadership of the Democratic Party was much further to the left than the rank and file.
It was the leadership that conceived of Obamacare, Cap ‘n’ Tax ‘n’ Spend (or whatever), and who wrote the Stimulosaurus bill. The rank and file had very little input, and quite a number of them went along only because their arms were painfully twisted — and in the Democratic Party, dominated as it is these days by a strong heirarchy controlled at the top by a few political aristocrats and very rich men, there are a lot of ways the leadership can painfully twist the arms of the newly elected Representative from District Foo-99.
I’m not averse to punishing the party as a whole so as to encourage a bottom-up revolution that tosses both these fossils from Joe Stalin’s last Five Year Plan out and the fossilized union rules that kept them in power too long, but it is worth remembering that there are plenty of moderate, sensible, Truman/Jackson Democrats down there at the bottom. Some effort should be made to differentiate them from the corrupt leadership, and encourage them to revolt, as the “Tea Party” revolt has re-shaped the Republican Party. We need a strong American competitor for the GOP.
At last! The intersection of zombiegeddon and politics!
Aside from the zombie greatness of the Frank J. piece, the suck observations and timeline dialog are some of the most entertaining and enlightening descriptions of the state of American politics today. Perfection.