** Why aren't Democrats making hay with the obvious?

Obama and Democrats in Congress seem incapable of framing good issues in ways that make sense to the average person.  Below is another recent example of this.

Tonight on Washington Week in Review on SDPB-TV, a segment on jobs discussed the current report which failed to show expected increases in jobs. A clever comment was something like, “A lot of crystal ball gazers were eating shattered glass.”

Anyway, they indicated that the job increases in the private sector were nearly negated by the job loses in government. It is a neat circle when the retrograde GOP slashes government causing government workers to be unemployed and then claims that on the Obama stimulus is not working because jobs aren’t increasing fast enough.

Thanks to Cory Heidelberger for finding the link to an equivalent NPR story:

NPR..Jobs growth rate below expectations.  Government job cuts, etc

Also, on same program was report of GOP fundraising by the GOP Irrelevancies: Pawlenty, Romney, Paul, et al. Apparently contributions were all far below funds raised in last election. I suppose the corporations are waiting to see the reaction to the GOP attempt to devastate government and the economy.

If Obama and Democrats can get their act together and speak to Americans in the equivalent of an FDR fireside chat, the Republicans will become a small minority in the US Senate and House.  Sometimes it is hard to believe that Obama can maintain interest in anything long enough or pick up on issues quickly enough to use them in a leadership role.  He is no longer a Senator. Trying to compromise with GOP political terrorists is like Obama negotiating for a different color bag over his head for the lynching. Democrats in Congress need to get off their dead asses and get out into the country side talking to regular people instead of to insider fat cats in DC.

*** Stay tuned-- our economy may depend on your intense interest --- Doug Wiken

 

Comments

[caheidelberger]

You're right, Douglas: we need some Dems to get up and do some serious rhetorical ass-kicking. I think the problem is that the GOp are focused on manufacturing really good polarizing one-liners, while the Dems are all actually the vast center, just trying to do good government. Wait, there's the dichotomy again: Dems want good government, Republicans want no government. Dang: it all makes sense! Get Chairman Ben in here, and let's go get those anarchists!