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Quivering, Chicken Sh*t Democrats

August 12, 2011 at 5:43 PM Leave a comment

I just finished reading an article in the New York Times — G.O.P. on Defensive as Analysts Question Party’s Fiscal Policy:

The boasts of Congressional Republicans about their cost-cutting victories are ringing hollow to some well-known economists, financial analysts and corporate leaders, including some Republicans, who are expressing increasing alarm over Washington’s new austerity.

Their critiques have grown sharper since last week, when President Obama signed his deficit reduction deal with Republicans and, a few days later, when Standard & Poor’s subsequently downgraded the credit rating of the United States.

But even before that, macroeconomists and private sector forecasters were warning that the direction in which the new House Republican majority had pushed the White House and Congress this year — for immediate spending cuts, no further stimulus measures and no tax increases, ever — was the wrong one for addressing the nation’s two main ills, a weak economy now and projections of unsustainably high federal debt in coming years.

Instead, these critics say, Washington should be focusing on stimulating the economy in the near term to induce people to spend money and create jobs, while simultaneously settling on a long-term plan for spending reductions and tax increases to take effect only after the economy recovers.

But the above paragraphs weren’t the kicker for me.  This one, the third-to-last, was:

A Democratic Congressional adviser, granted anonymity to discuss party deliberations, said: “We’re at a loss to figure out a way to articulate the argument in a way that doesn’t get us pegged as tax-and-spenders.”

Is that pitiful or what?  Every single poll I’ve seen in the last six weeks points to the fact that Americans want Washington to concentrate on creating jobs, not on cutting the deficit.  Why don’t these terrified Democrats understand that if they hold a press conference every single day on the steps of the Capitol  (i.e., they act up and make some noise) and they screaming about the desperation of the unemployed and underemployed, they’d strike a home run.  Why is that so damn hard?

They have to have a unified message and they have to hammer it home every time any one of them is on teevee, the radio or in a for-print interview.  Over and over and over again.  Period.

Geezus.

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