Good lard, the Democratic Party sucks.\u00c2\u00a0 They lose a Senate seat, and decide to pack it in.\u00c2\u00a0 If the feelings we have surrounding this party is apt, I suggest they put it to a vote right now on who should organize the Senate Caucus, and hand title of “Majority Leader” over to Mitch McConnell — holder of now 41 seat, 42 if you toss in Lieberman for making his usual coy comments.<\/p>\n
The Democratic Party Reaction is, if asked, I am liable to identify myself as a member in good standing of the Whig Party.\u00c2\u00a0 The Whig Party has a few things going for it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Henry Clay had a decent and workable vision for uniting the nation — “The American System”.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The party ditched the idea of bothering with platforms, and just ran beloved Generals.\u00c2\u00a0 We had William Henry Harrison.\u00c2\u00a0 Zachoray Taylor did not disgrace himself in his 14 months of office.\u00c2\u00a0 At the mid-point of the twentieth century, the nation decided to give the Whig Party another whirl, and elected Dwight D Eisenhower — who gave us the Federal Highway System.\u00c2\u00a0 Harrison, Taylor, Eisenhower.<\/p>\n
There is a strange quality to the current deliberations.\u00c2\u00a0 Politically it’s probably best for the Democratic House to pass the Senate bill, as much of a Rube Goldberg Device as it is (and it is a Rube Goldberg Device because it’s a contraptiond designed for 60 goddamned votes), and sell it as that flawed foundation we’ll get back to in the years ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 This has the advantage of being less noisy in the process, and it’s the noisiness of the proecess that’s killing everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Policy-wise, I long desired that that thing is too far gone that the pared down items to be gotten through Reconciliation and 50 goddamned votes — your Medicare Buy-in down a decade and a few Insurance Reforms — probably makes for better actual policy.\u00c2\u00a0 Modest in some ways, more radical (I hate that word when describing these reforms) in other ways.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, watching the party I will go ahead and change registration to “Whig”.<\/p>\n
For a time, I’ve had this generalized theory of how a throughline of a more or less\u00c2\u00a0 successful Obama Presidency, of two terms, would look — success being I can look back at it and think more highly of it than Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 And the throughline throws as a given substantial losses in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s generically that pattern that holds for previous presidents — I see someone has unearthed what should be more widely understood about Ronald Reagan<\/a>‘s presidency.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, Reagan held three periods of popularity — coinciding with the 84 and 88 elections that they may, and a lot of area of unpopularity.\u00c2\u00a0 Likewise, Gallup lets us in that Obama has a lower approval rating at this stage in his presidency than anyone since Eisnenhower<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 No, seriously.\u00c2\u00a0 A Political Life is not something for the squemish.\u00c2\u00a0 But the throughline gives us, though, the requirement of a Big Ticket Item in the first two years.\u00c2\u00a0 The Democrats seem bizarrely giddy to blow it.<\/p>\n … And, you know, not that I am a Democrat.\u00c2\u00a0 I am a member of the Whig Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good lard, the Democratic Party sucks.\u00c2\u00a0 They lose a Senate seat, and decide to pack it in.\u00c2\u00a0 If the feelings we have surrounding this party is apt, I suggest they put it to a vote right now on who should organize the Senate Caucus, and hand title of “Majority Leader” over to Mitch McConnell — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}