Party of D’oh!
Maybe the left ought to reconsider the “Party of No” talking point the Democrats have been pushing to a willing media for the past year because it is doing them no good at all. The GOP has beaten the progressives in every election since the epithet became the Official Democratic Nickname for the Republican Party, including two ringing defeats in the very blue states of New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Instead of being an albatross around the next of a lost and aimless party, the “Party of No” is proving to be a boon to the Republicans. Increasingly, America wants Republicans to act as a check on the Democratic Utopia Revolution Machine.
In addition, the Post and ABC found that the public is glad that Republicans now have the power in the Senate to block Obama initiatives. The pollsters asked, “Republicans now hold enough seats in the U.S. Senate to block any legislation Obama and the Senate Democrats propose. Overall, do you think this is (a good thing because it will force Obama and the Democrats to cooperate more with the Republicans); OR (a bad thing because it will enable the Republicans to set terms before allowing anything to go forward)?” Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed say it’s a good thing, versus 36 percent who say it’s a bad thing. That does not mean that people want Republicans to use their power to block all of Obama’s initiatives; when asked how often the GOP should use that power, 10 percent say “almost always,” 15 percent say “a great deal,” 49 percent say “just some” and 16 percent say “rarely.” The bottom line is that people are happy to have a Republican check on Obama, even though they don’t want to see it exercised all the time.
All in all, the poll shows the public growing increasingly confident in the GOP’s ability to handle critical issues.
For a year, the Democrats have been saying “Party of No” but America has been hearing it as something quite different. Worse for the left, America really likes what it hears. It reminds me of Homer Simpson’s “Yes on 242″ commercial. The only problem with his plan to use Rudy Giuliani to command people to vote yes was that he really wanted to them to vote no.
I wonder who the messaging guru is for the Democrats these days.
Other Posts of Interest:
- “Just Win, Baby”: The Unofficial Motto of the Democratic Party
- Forty Quotes from the Mainstream Left to Make You Shake Your Head
- Our Long National Embarassment Has Now Begun
Category: Progressives
Good assessment. You would think they would notice that the majority of the electorate is pretty happy there is a party of NO!
Now I just wonder how long the Repubs can keep it up?