September 27, 2011

What Are Democrats Thinking?

By Christopher Chantrill
At this moment in the political cycle Republicans are wondering if they are about to demolish the Democrats.   And the Democrats are waking up to the possibility that President Obama might be leading them off a cliff. So what are Democrats thinking at this critical moment?  Let's take a look at a couple of recent efforts as both Jared Bernstein and Paul Krugman dutifully toe the president's class warfare line. Jared Bernstein at Huffington Post wants the election to be about the fundamentals: the "role and size of government," fairness, and supply-side, deregulatory economics.  But there's a problem.  Voters are tuning out Democrats, as Stan Greenberg wrote back in July.  They agree with progressive ideas, apparently; they just don't trust Democrats to deliver.  So Bernstein announces that he'll rail at special interests, talk about fairness, and insist that Republicans "wrecked the car in the 2000s" as his contribution to the fight for progressive...(Read Full Article)