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On January 19th, the very night Scott Brown won the MA special election, Sen. Evan Bayh said, “[t]here’s going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this, if you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up.â€Â
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Apparently Bayh feels his Democratic Party is playing Rip Van Winkle. I blogged last week about how party purists tend to wean out the moderating influences that would allow them to govern successfully, and now it appears the Obama administration’s far left agenda is pushing moderate Democrats out.
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Bayh had often been mentioned as a VP candidate, or even as a potential president one day. One has to wonder if he is toying with a challenge from the center for 2012? It would be interesting to see a serious primary challenge for a sitting president- the political junkie in me salivates over the prospect. But more importantly, the Democratic Party has tilted way too far left believing they had a mandate to do so even though Obama largely campaigned from the middle. A pull back to the center in the form of a strong primary challenge would be good for them, and for the country as a whole.
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What far left agenda?
Close down Gitmo? On hold.
Public option healthcare? Dead.
Bring home troops from Iraq? Behind schedule…but building up in Afghanistan.
Use public funds to bail out large capitalist firms? Definitely not left wing.
Honestly? Left wing? It’s hilarious how the right wing complains about Obama being a left wing nutjob and the left wing nutjobs complain about him being a faux conservative. In reality, I’d put him somewhere between the two Bushes in terms of ideology. If he has an actual ideology.
Thurman-
You are cherry-picking a few policies to try and make your point, but are missing the main goals of the Obama administration: to rewrite the American social compact. He wants government to narrow the nation’s income and anxiety gaps. Nationalize health care and federalize education and fund this vast new social safety net through the cash cow of a disguised carbon tax. Just this past week he began waffling on his pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. At heart Obama is a leveler.
Just because he has not been successful yet does not mean that he is not trying to remake the nation.