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‘Mad Ducks’ should refill their Zoloft prescriptions.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 6th, 2010 at 09:25 AM  | 

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Loathe as I am to link to Mickey Kaus* until after the California primary is over, the fact remains that I saw this Fred Barnes WSJ article via his site (H/T: Instapundit):

Washington has never been held in lower esteem by Americans than it is today. Yet those in control of Washington—President Obama and congressional Democrats—are bent on enacting a series of sweeping domestic policy changes this year that have one thing in common: They are unpopular, in whole or in part.

This is unprecedented and a bit weird too. A revival of civility and an end to the ugly political polarization in Washington—goals stressed by Mr. Obama in his presidential campaign and again last Saturday in a speech at the University of Michigan—won’t be furthered by passage of an unpopular agenda. A more likely result is years of partisan resentment and bitter fighting over efforts by Republicans to repeal the unwanted policies.

Mickey calls this a ‘mad duck’ kind of situation, and while I give him points for partisan consistency (Mickey’s solution is to limit Republican wins, in order to keep the Democrats from being too insecure) he is nonetheless displaying partisan thinking. To put it simply: any Democratic Member of Congress who signs off on this in 2010 after winning re-election will have a very miserable 112th Congress. Any Democratic Senator who signs off on this while being up for re-election in 2012 will have to explain that to the voters, more or less constantly.

Are you paying attention to that, Jeff Bingaman? Sherrod Brown? Bob Casey? Kent Conrad? Amy Klobuchar? Herb Kohl? Claire McCaskill? Ben Nelson? Bill Nelson? Debbie Stabenow? Jon Tester? Jim Webb?  – Because we are.

Moe Lane

*Just business, Mickey. Nothing personal.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Ausonius

    It is difficult to analyze people from their public statements, and from their actions: brain scans would be nice too, so that tumors could be ruled out.

    But let us try!

    So you are e.g. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, usually a sensible state (I live there) but not unknown to lapse into temporary insanity.

    Are you so unwilling to recognize or to admit the majority disaffection for the Socialist agenda of BIG BRObama that you stay consistently to the left and get booted out? Do you really NOT believe that the disaffection and even downright hatred for the Socialist agenda is a majority opinion?

    Why is that? What is the mental condition causing you NOT to recognize the obvious???

    Is your smug self-confidence – that YOU know better than the American people – so great that you deliberately ignore their opinion?

    Is your leftist belief in Socialism so great that you believe that it must be imposed on America despite the will of the majority? Do you believe that once America tastes Socialism, it will learn to like it?

    Were you treated badly in kindergarten in the bathroom by the other little boys, and ever since you have been looking for payback? (Freudian interpretation). :)

    The result is: you are a moron, and even if you are not really a moron, you are still acting like a moron.

    Archeologists claim that people on Easter Island slowly and inexorably cut down every tree, despite the evidence in front of their noses that if they started PLANTING trees, rather than cutting them down, their lives would improve, along with the lives of future children and grandchildren.

    BIG BRObama and his moron Congress are metaphorically cutting down the last trees in America: with every new tax, with every new regulation, with every new bureaucrat, they are chopping down the forests of the future, and not reseeding the island for our children and grandchildren.