Related Link » What Scott Brown's win means for the DemocratsI say: Let sleeping dogs lie (both yellow and blue), particularly if they are rabid.
“Democratic cocooners will tell themselves that Coakley was a terrible candidate who even managed to diss Curt Schilling. True, Brown had Schilling. But Coakley had Obama. When the bloody sock beats the presidential seal -- of a man who had them swooning only a year ago -- something is going on beyond personality. That something is substance -- political ideas and legislative agendas. Democrats, if they wish, can write off their Massachusetts humiliation to high unemployment, to Coakley or, the current favorite among sophisticates, to generalized anger. That implies an inchoate, unthinking lashing-out at whoever happens to be in power -- even at your liberal betters who are forcing on you an agenda that you can't even see is in your own interest. Democrats must so rationalize, otherwise they must take democracy seriously, and ask themselves: If the people really don't want it, could they possibly have a point? ‘If you lose Massachusetts and that's not a wake-up call’, said moderate -- and sentient -- Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, ‘there's no hope of waking up’. I say: Let them sleep.” [emphasis added]
— Charles Krauthammer, January 22, 2010
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“This sort of unreality will ensure that the Obama flame continues to engulf the congress of liberal moths that swarm to it. Did Obama really think the laws of physics did not apply to him — that one can in a year and a half run up over $3 trillion [$3,000 billion!] without consequences or nominate a nut like Van Jones or bow to a Saudi royal or denigrate the police or serially break his promises or attempt to socialize medicine or claim that employment comes as manna from heaven once a rhetorician calls for so many billions to be borrowed for so many millions of jobs?” [comment inserted]
— Victor Davis Hanson, January 22, 2010
Post #1,098 Let sleeping dogs lie
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