You have no numbers proving I’m wrong. At least I offered a cite. Sound to me like you’re the one operating on gut (or some other part) feel
I’m not the one claiming a ‘vast majority’, you are, with a cite which suggests that perhaps 3/16th of Democratic congressmen might be tiptoeing around the teabaggers. That’s simply not good enough. Now if you’d said that the ‘vast minority’ of congressmen had not tried to explain the new health law at their hometown events, I’d’ve agreed with you, and then laughed at you. At least then you’d’ve gotten a little credit for honesty.
Seriously, do you want him to face a lynch mob or something?
All you’ve done is apply your own conceived value to the writer’s dozens comment
Yes, I certainly haven’t come up with anything as dishonest as your ‘vast majority’ from the cite you provided. That was your doing. Are you yet another Republican coward who won’t own up to your exaggerations and errors in interpretation? They’re common as dirt nowdays.
Graveyard whistling.
Stupak was a central figure in getting the health care bill passed and he clued in to the fact that his district was going to make him pay for it in November.
The political landscape has changed dramatically in the past year. Unless someone is totally blinded by ideology and wishful thinking, the inescapable conclusion is that independents are fleeing from Obama and a majority of people now oppose many aspects of his agenda.
If the democrats who voted “no” on the health care bill had felt safe in their own districts, they would have voted “yes”. They can see the handwriting on the wall. It’s also in the polling data. The idea that voters will be more open to the health care law “once it’s explained to them” hasn’t happened.
I disagree with Obama on fiscal policy. I think that the Cap and Trade bill is premature because more alternative energy sources are not yet available or cost effective. I think the new nuclear policy is naive. For those reasons and a few others, I hope Obama and the Democrats keep pushing those ideas nice and hard. I hope they draw a clear unmistakable line in the sand and let everyone know where they stand.
Then the bloodbath will come in November. Apparently there are many people in this country that needed to touch the liberal stove for themselves to find out that it’s actually hot. The left got to drive the car for a while…but they pissed off dad and he’s about to take the keys away.
Sure it has 
Let me know when you win back your majority in congress, will ya? Til then, talk is cheap.
Is the majority changing your tipping point to conceding my point?
Right now, RealClearPolitics is predicting the Republicans will gain eight seats in the Senate. Other sources are calling for Democrats to lose 30 seats or more in the house. How do you explain that? Racism?
Yes, and this is every bit as frightening as Republican tales of Saddam’s WMD’s were in 2003. I wasn’t frightened then, and I think you’re blowing butt gas again today. Naturally, your mileage varies, but you’ve been backing losing political propositions since at least 2006.
Time will tell. Anyone else out there want to get in Squinks corner on this one?
The administration has pulled some masterly strokes lately and so many people missed it. When Obama gave 8 billion to the nuclear people ,and then said he would allow off shore oil drilling ,he took away some useless ululating of the right. They can no longer howl about the Dems being anti nuke energy or trying to achieve energy independence. The fact is neither of these moves will have short term impact. it takes a long time to get a nuclear plant on line. The oil companies are in no hurry to drill any new off shore lands. They already have millions of acres they won’t touch for decades. But the Repubs lost some campaign issues without the Dems giving up anything.
Stupak served a function on his way out. he seemed to be a righty on the health care bill,yet he actually just took the issue away from them. It was a nice deflection. He took some heat and retired. He was going to anyway.
Given normal, or even worse than normal, off-year losses, Democrats will still control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency come January. I’ll admit there could be a small chance that the Republicans will take the House, but that would require a 1994-style firestorm, and I don’t see any evidence today of that happening, especially as there is no Newt Gingrich electrifying voters with a Contract [del]on[/del] with America.
The usual pattern for midterm congressional elections?
Not really a very meaningful statistic. Most polls show voters like their own representative, but hate all the others. That’s why incumbents usually have a big advantage.