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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (18636)3/23/2006 6:58:07 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
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Barry Casselman has an essay at Real Clear Politics looking at the Democrats and why they don't seem to have ideas. He argues that it's more than just Pavlovian responses to anything that Bush does.

<<< There is a reason why nearly everything the Democrats talk about sounds stale, pompously rhetorical and unappealing to most voters other than their relatively small party base.

This is the compulsive Democratic habit to hold on to the assumptions and language of their past. When Democrats attack "big business," and the "interests of the rich," they are merely repeating for the zillionth time a verbal formula that was successfully employed in the 1930s, and last worked effectively in the 1964 presidential election.

When Democrats attack free-trade policies, they assume that employed voters are still the monolith they were up to the 1970s. When Democrats attack tax cuts, they ignore the clear lessons of recent history, beginning with their own icon, President Kennedy (whose tax cuts brought the nation out of recession in 1962). When Democrats propose vast new health-care spending programs, they forget the budget balancing of their last successful president, Bill Clinton, who produced surpluses and reduced the national debt.

In short, the Democrats cannot produce "new ideas" from political content that precludes innovation and problem-solving. >>>

He's not talking about every Democrat, of course, but his description is very apt for the more prominent Democrats - the ones who are the leaders in the Congress or who ran for president in 2004. We'll see if Hillary Clinton can demonstrate that she is one of those who is not mired in the past or not. I suspect that she can't cut herself off from old-time Democrats thought no matter how she ties herself to the Democratic Leadership Council. Her approach to health care doesn't seem to indicate that she has evolved from the stale politics of generations ago or has learned any economic history from the past few decades.

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