Big Tent Democrat commented earlier today at Talkleft in his post Policy And Politics: The Economy that:
Discussing E.J. Dionne’s column today, Booman makes some good points:
Considering that [the column] is supposed to be about [Dems] regaining the initiative, it’s pretty weak to lecture the White House about its tendency to defend itself and “the left” about never being satisfied. Those things aren’t going to change. We can be critical of that reality, but we ought not offer it up as something to fix so that we can get our mojo back.
In fact it is not something to fix. The White House should tout its accomplishments. They are in the politics business after all. And people dissatisfied with what the White House is doing should say so and work to make them do what they want. That’s how it works. But both Booman and Dionne miss the connection between the political problems Dems have and the economic policies of the Obama Administration.
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And these failures explain almost all of the political trouble the Democrats are in. Booman writes:
There are two things that will help us get our mojo back: Speaker Boehner and Obama’s reelection campaign. That’s all we need. And improving economy would be nice, but realistically we are going to be fighting over who is to blame for high unemployment and who has a better plan to get something through Congress that will create jobs.
(Emphasis supplied.) If that is where the political battle is going to be fought, then the Dems’ political fortunes do not look bright.
“An improving economy would be nice but realistically we are going to be fighting over who is to blame for high unemployment”?
Booman of course and as usual has his finger on the pulse of reality, and like many strong Obama supporters knows deep in his heart that it’s far more important for them to “win” than it is to have the administration produce results, even if he has to lose to win.
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