Democratic Disaster?
August 5, 2009 - by
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
My hair’s standing up on my neck the way it did early in 1994. But four months earlier this time.
Obama is struggling to keep control of the agenda. August will be crucial. If the right-wing attacks on health care reform, deficits, cash-for-clunkers and “Not Born in the USA
But Obama is smart and tough. He is capable of fighting back. Unlike the Clintons
Not so much in Raleigh
And Bev Perdue is no Barack Obama.
I know there’s a long way to go. But we have the same problem now Bush and the Republicans had in 2006 and 2008: We own it. Anything goes wrong, we get the blame.
And while the talent edge in Washington seems to go to the Democrats, it looks to be on the Republican side in North Carolina
After the election last year, Carter told me he was too demoralized to fight back hard. But now he’s swinging away.
The Republicans have been smart not to offer alternatives to health-care reform in Washington or the budget in North Carolina
They just wait at the plate for the pitcher to serve up another nice big slow one across the middle of the plate.
Here’s an idea: North Carolina Democrats should do what Washington Republicans have done on health care. Put together – from their public statements and legislative proposals – what the Republican budget plan is.
Then whale away. Put the Republicans on the defensive.
When your message boils down to “things could be worse” or “that’s not what I’m proposing,” you’re in trouble. That’s where Democrats are today – Obama included.
Democratic Disaster?
August 5, 2009/
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
My hair’s standing up on my neck the way it did early in 1994. But four months earlier this time.
Obama is struggling to keep control of the agenda. August will be crucial. If the right-wing attacks on health care reform, deficits, cash-for-clunkers and “Not Born in the USA
But Obama is smart and tough. He is capable of fighting back. Unlike the Clintons
Not so much in Raleigh
And Bev Perdue is no Barack Obama.
I know there’s a long way to go. But we have the same problem now Bush and the Republicans had in 2006 and 2008: We own it. Anything goes wrong, we get the blame.
And while the talent edge in Washington seems to go to the Democrats, it looks to be on the Republican side in North Carolina
After the election last year, Carter told me he was too demoralized to fight back hard. But now he’s swinging away.
The Republicans have been smart not to offer alternatives to health-care reform in Washington or the budget in North Carolina
They just wait at the plate for the pitcher to serve up another nice big slow one across the middle of the plate.
Here’s an idea: North Carolina Democrats should do what Washington Republicans have done on health care. Put together – from their public statements and legislative proposals – what the Republican budget plan is.
Then whale away. Put the Republicans on the defensive.
When your message boils down to “things could be worse” or “that’s not what I’m proposing,” you’re in trouble. That’s where Democrats are today – Obama included.