Advice for the Dems
January 26th 2010 06:42
No Democratic strategists come to me for advice. Maybe that's wise. If they did, however, I would offer up this advice to them:
Treat Republican Scott Brown's election to the Senate as a reality check. If you do, it could provide you with the impetus to keep you from driving your party over a cliff. At a time when the electorate is seething in anger, the ultimate sin is to be tone-deaf -- and you have been tone-deaf to the biggest needs and concerns of the citizenry. You now have a chance to slam on the brakes and turn in the direction the country wants you to go (the economy and jobs, jobs, jobs). The biggest challenge, though, is to create jobs without blowing the deficit up even more than you already have. That's not an easy task. You should provide tax cuts for businesses -- especially small businesses. And, in particular, you should offer tax cuts for job creation at companies. If you can do those things, you may have a chance to get the country back on track. If you can get the unemployment percentage headed down and the economy growing at a pace faster than a crawl, November may not be a complete debacle for you.
Your domestic policy is the Titanic and November is when your ship will meet up with that fateful glacier. Can you right your course? You'd better. Otherwise, November will be a bloodletting that will make MA look as bothersome as a cloudy day.
Treat Republican Scott Brown's election to the Senate as a reality check. If you do, it could provide you with the impetus to keep you from driving your party over a cliff. At a time when the electorate is seething in anger, the ultimate sin is to be tone-deaf -- and you have been tone-deaf to the biggest needs and concerns of the citizenry. You now have a chance to slam on the brakes and turn in the direction the country wants you to go (the economy and jobs, jobs, jobs). The biggest challenge, though, is to create jobs without blowing the deficit up even more than you already have. That's not an easy task. You should provide tax cuts for businesses -- especially small businesses. And, in particular, you should offer tax cuts for job creation at companies. If you can do those things, you may have a chance to get the country back on track. If you can get the unemployment percentage headed down and the economy growing at a pace faster than a crawl, November may not be a complete debacle for you.
Your domestic policy is the Titanic and November is when your ship will meet up with that fateful glacier. Can you right your course? You'd better. Otherwise, November will be a bloodletting that will make MA look as bothersome as a cloudy day.
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Comment by S.L.
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My advice to all the Democrats (and a whole bunch of Republicans as well) would be to resign now or don't run again. Of course, it won't hurt my feelings if the voters humiliate them in Nov... They earned it!
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