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What We’ve Got Here Is Failure To Communicate

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  January 21st, 2010 at 12:07 AM  | 

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We’ve been telling Obama and the Democrats that we are not pleased with what they’re doing. We kicked them in the shins with NJ and VA, and then we beat them over the head with Massachusetts just to make sure we drove the point home. Obama himself JUST responded by telling us he understood, that he and Congress had “Lost Touch with American People Last Year” going on to half-way promise he would do better going forward:

“Obama said he felt he could do a better job connecting to the American people in his second year in office.

“I think that I can do a better job of that, and partly because I do believe that we’re in a stronger position now than we were a year ago,” he said.

Hallucinations about being in a stronger position now that the supermajority has been squandered notwithstanding, the rest of the Democrats even hinted that they needed to back off a bit and further sugggested that if they didn’t, they’d be screwed.

How do they breathe in the voter-inflicted aroma of bipartisanship? Why, they get a head rush, and come back with a plan to Nationalize the Student Loan industry, inflict new limits on the size and risk taken by the country’s biggest banks, AND raise the national debt…again…nearly 2 trillion dollars MORE than the amount they raised it just a month ago.

Why they chose to play the role of Cool Hand Luke during their short stint in control of the Government escapes me. These idiots REALLY just don’t get it.

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  • izoneguy

    He Wasn?t The One We?ve Been Waiting For

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/he-wasnt-the-one-weve-been-waiting-for/?src=twt&twt=NytimesKrugman

    But I have to say, I?m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

  • writeblock

    Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima should have brought the war to an immediate end. The entire city was incinerated. But the Japanese were so unrealistic, and so willfully blind to what it all meant, that it took a second bomb–on Nagasaki–before they woke up to the utter hopelessness of their situation. Massachusetts was like dropping that second bomb. VA and NJ weren’t enough to wake the Democrats up. Now there’s no good way out of the devastation.

    • Paul_In_Houston

      We’re lucky the job got done with two.

      I remember the opening chapter of “Day One” (non-fiction about the development and use of the atomic bomb), where an officer is worried about the number 50. That’s how many the Army thought might be necessary for the message to get through.

      His concern was that the current plutonium design (the only one they could produce in such numbers), had to be fully armed when assembled and loaded into the aircraft; he wasn’t happy with the odds of 50 straight take-offs of the heavily laden aircraft without an accident (possibly wiping out the entire base on Tinian).

      To get back on topic, is it going to take fifty bombs for the Democrats to get the message? Or, are we (like the Army then) being overly pessimistic?

      -

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    Dearest Mr. Steele…
    I received an email from you with the title to the effect of “Specter meet Brown”…

    Respectfully, please do not scare Arlen any more than needed and especially please do not do anything that might drive Democrats to think anything is going wrong for them and getting them to stop derailing themselves… “do not interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake” is the very fit saying by Napoleon if I recall correctly…

    Thanks…

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    Financial Times report, 1/20/10, “UN Abandons Climate Change Deadline.”

    • haystack

      posted about it at my personal site and I’m still laughing about the epic fail.

      So much for AlGore’s prediction, hunh?

    • JadedByPolitics

      takes away the ability of Obama to LIE, CHEAT and STEAL from the American public easily and it will take a little longer to subvert WE The People and they will have to get back to the books to come up with a NEW SCHEME that is not so obvious!

  • IJB

    When you read the comments at places like TPM and Kos, you start to realize that the rank-and-file on the other side have *no* idea how the game is really played.

    Those guys really are out to lunch.

    • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

      …was our guys were worse.
      ‘Till now.
      Game has changed. It’s not a game anymore. They’re playing with destroying the republic, and that won’t happen.
      Not while we’re breathing.

      • jayburd

        nt

    • mriggio

      I especially enjoyed their thread wistfully recalling the glory days of…..LBJ! Pass the popcorn!

  • alpharob1

    What we got here is failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can’t reach.

    Not “a failure” but failure. A nit, but such a classic line and
    movie, accuracy is called for in my opinion.

    Here’s a neat exchange:

    http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Obama-Advisors-Deny-Brown/2010/01/20/id/347435

    On Tuesday, for example, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., told ABC News, ?There?s going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this.? Bayh then added: ?If you lose Massachusetts and that?s not a wake-up call, there?s no hope of waking up.?

    After referencing those remarks, Todd asked Axelrod and Gibbs: ?Do you guys hear this wake up call? Do you believe this was a wake up call, whether it?s to retool your message, whether it?s to get your message out there better, do you hear a wake up call in what happened yesterday.?

    While open to tweaking the administration?s message and focusing more attention on the economy, Gibbs? response appeared to push back against Bayh?s remarks.

    ?I don?t think what Sen. Bayh would argue is that we somehow abandon our pursuit on things that are important to the middle class: How to make college more affordable, how to make retirement more secure, how to create an environment for good paying jobs in this country,? Gibbs said.

    ….

    They are totally tone deaf.

    Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here [this] week, which is the way he wants it… well, he gets it.

    Groundhog Day again in November? Surely. They’ll dig in their heels and
    deny deny deny. “The people are angry at…. jobs, yeah that’s it!”
    Never mind that Brown ran on an anti-healthcare platform. Shhhhh!

    • haystack

      I have corrected the error of my ways-post edited to remove “a”

      and I agree-dig in seems to be all they know how to do, regardless the world around them.

  • alpharob1

    more on the nit.. missing the obvious and my own correction was
    inadequate

    “What we have here is a failure to communicate”

    versus

    “What we got here is failure to communicate”

    Poor english, but what a classic.

    • haystack

      what the “actual” quote says is this (from the clip)

      What we’ve got here is failure to communicate

      Title fixed-bed now

      • bigalsouth

        and never the message.

        This really astute guy posted this January 20 at 5:26 pm:
        ——-
        Big Al bets that this year’s State of the Union will be the most watched in recent history.

        What will he do? He will go with the meme that the Democrats need to do a better job of getting their message out. After all, socialism is a paradise on earth! It worked so well for Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, Ho Chi Minn, etc.

        What we have heah is failure to communicate . . .
        ———-
        Oh. wait a minute. That was me. #14
        http://nanosecondinv.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=10666&page=1

  • TokyoNose

    Don’t you just love how, when they have to face actual voters and end up getting stuffed, the Democrats and their media apologists roll out all of this nonsense about “Having lost touch with the mood of the public” etc.? There are not a few Republicans and conservatives who have been foolish enough to play along with this nonsense, and this is the reason that this whole health “reform” process has gotten as far along as it has.

    The left understands perfectly well that they are not representing the expressed interests of the public. They just don’t care.

    Until the stupid party comes to grips with this fact, understands the progressive mindset that animates these people, and engages them correspondingly, they will never be stopped.

  • USNJIMRET

    and they never update it.”
    Or something close to that.
    I know that I was actually kind of shocked a little to hear a variety of Dem’s with the “we have failed to get our message clearly to the voters” BS.
    I just think that I’ve been hearing that line of bovine excrement for far too long now to accept that it has ANY validity.
    This Administration came into power having proved/claimed to be the most ‘tech savvy’ group ever.
    And yet, a year in, we are supposed to believe that they managed to not get the message out?
    Or is the more likely truth that the One knows damn well that the ‘message’ has gotten out, and those formerly asleep at the wheel dumdasses have actually read those things?
    I believe that any hope that this President would do what the last Democrat in the Oval Office did, and understand that his only chance at a respectful ‘legacy’ is to pivot to the center, is an empty one.

    • 6eorge Jetson

      Loss of 2-3 favorability points for the month, again (on average).

      Way to go, Coach Obama/Reid/Pelosi.

      Surely some Blue-dog players must know they are getting cut if that play-calling strategy continues. My joy upon the Brown victory was tempered only by the thought this would be the point where the Dems start to adjust back to the middle. Good (relative to the alternative) for the country, but maybe allows the Dems to escape the November elections with **only** a loss of, say, 40 net House seats and 4-5 net Senate seats instead of ~75 and 7-8.

      Will the gift that kept on giving, the Lefty overreach, keep on giving in 2010 like it did in 2009? On a one-by-one basis, part of me says no, surely they must by now see the consequences.

      On the other hand, I’m sure we’ve all seen the Big Project at work, that everyone knows is going to fail, and there’s still time for its leader to cut his/her losses and save their job, yet the project presses on despite the obvious “emperor has no clothes”.

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

        San Fran Nan’s play is more like this:

        Throw out your hands!
        Stick out your tush!
        Hands on your hips!
        Give them a push!

        • 6eorge Jetson

          With that visual, I think I’ll be skipping breakfast this morning.

  • jayburd

    0t

  • OccamsRazor

    I can at least dig it.

    diggity, or

  • Scope

    as reported on Drudge, he has made hundreds of speeches and has been on TV to the point of over saturation. What Obama and the Progressives have missed is the fact that Americans don’t like or agree with the message. Obama has no intention of changing from what We The People don’t want, he/they will just change up the words used, or go deeper underground to accomplish their mission to socialize America. They get it, it just happens to be against their agenda.

  • Return to Revolution

    in all of this was when Obama actually said the voters of MA elected Brown because they were angry at…. Bush (voters were angry at events not just in the last year but in the last 8 years…)

    If that isn’t the most epic denial-delusional-unicorn-filled fail, I don’t know what is.

    http://bit.ly/8p79VJ

    • stratdaddy

      I couldn’t believe Obama went there. He just proved that he will never accept the responsibilities of his office. Never. His team will never stop to gauge how much mileage they’re getting from “blame Bush.” Never. For his opponents, Obama will be the gift that keeps on giving.

      I wasn’t expecting a full frontal mia culpa from the dems yesterday, but the level of denial in their non-confessions is deafening. Hopefully, they keep on message with,”You’re just not listening,” right on through to November.

    • stratdaddy

      I couldn’t believe Obama went there. He just proved that he will never accept the responsibilities of his office. Never. His team will never stop to gauge how much mileage they’re getting from “blame Bush.” Never. For his opponents, Obama will be the gift that keeps on giving.

      I wasn’t expecting a full frontal mia culpa from the dems yesterday, but the level of denial in their non-confessions is deafening. Hopefully, they keep on message with,”You’re just not listening,” right on through to November.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    the contents of the bill.

    Bills drafted in secrecy. A failure of communication.

    Failure to post them online at odds with campaign promises. Another failure.

    Failure to host committee meetings on C-SPAN despite eight specific promises. A failure of communication.

    But the American voter is reading the body English. And he/she hates it!

  • proudmarinemom

    hand-wringing and fat-chewing by the Democrats and the gloating by Republicans is the fact that financial support for Brown’s campaign came in from all 50 (57?) states and his victory had nothing to do with the economy of Massachusetts, health care in Massachusetts or party affiliations in Massachusetts.

    Someone needs to tell deniers like Bob Melendez that NO, Massachusetts is not unique. It’s full of Americans. Guess what, Bob (and Nancy and Harry and Barry)? The United States is populated by ….Americans. Yikes. And we’re coming after you.

    And by the way, has anyone held a mirror up to Sen. Byrd’s nostrils lately to see if we can gain another People’s Seat?

  • wgsampson

    is JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.

    If we just keep reminding America of a few simple things we can’t lose.

    1) Dems spent trillions on “stimulating the economy.” Where are the jobs?

    2) Dems spent a year trying to socialize health care. Where are the jobs?

    3) Dems are trying to pass oppressive energy (cap & trade) and labor (card check) job killing legislation. Where are the jobs?

    Answer: In India and China.

    So far this is all Republicans have been talking about, and they haven’t been talking about it enough. But then they have to lay out a plan.

    Those evil insurance companies and pharmaceutical comanies – that are in bed with the Dems trying to destroy our healthcare system – do actually hire people sometimes. There are some Jobs.

    Big banks and auto manufacturers can hire people as well. There are some more jobs.

    The bottom line is that we have to convince people that EVIL big businesses hire people – they create jobs.

    In addition small businesses create more jobs.

    Lower taxes, less regulation, and LESS GOVERNMENT helps them create jobs. And that is what we have much too little of.

  • joayn

    Haystack is absolutely correct. Obama and his crew will not back off and have no plans to back off. They will change or tweak their message to assuage their base and Independents (they think), but they will still go forward because they can’t help it – it is really who they are and no amount of evidence to the contrary will change their obsession to destroy/recreate America into what they think she should be – a “global” socialistic nation. They have come too far to give up everything now.

    Based on Obama’s spin interview with George S. yesterday, they aren’t just not listening, they are planning on going forward with what they want to do. Only they will try to disguise it, or break things down in smaller pieces, or some such other crazy ploys, thinking John Q. Public will not notice. This tactic has worked well for them in the past, and they are VERY into the past. The One sets the tone and message, his minions will dutifully bang the drum.

    They are now spinning the Massachusetts win as something else because they have to create a story that will support their plans going forward. Just watch and count the ways that Obie and his jack-boots will change the message from MA. And some Dems will follow, some will not.

    Watch the following exchange between Howard Dean and Chris Matthews. This is important: Dean is clearly surprised and thrown off- message by Matthew’s responses. Amazingly, kudos to Matthews.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/20/howard-dean-brown-won-because-obamacare-isnt-liberal-enough-or-something/

  • redneck_hippie

    concede reality “in words.”

    Deeds are another matter, entirely.