Red State Dems Rethink Agenda
I don’t know why Red State Democrats are worried. They won Tuesday. Nancy Pelosi said that so it has to be true. But, apparently there are some non-believers in the Democratic Party.
Election Day losses in Virginia and New Jersey have congressional Democrats focused like never before on jobs — their own.
While the White House and party leaders are urging calm, Democratic incumbents from red states and Republican-leaning districts are anything but; Tuesday’s statehouse defeats have left them acutely aware that their votes on health care reform and other major Obama initiatives could be career-enders in 2010 or beyond.
“I should be nervous,” said Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Huntsville, Ala.
Griffith said the Democratic rank and file is “very, very sensitive” to the fact that issues being pushed by party leaders “have the potential to cost some of our front-line members their seats.”
House Democrats, forced to take a tough vote on a controversial cap-and-trade climate change bill in June, may have to vote as earlier as this weekend on the even more controversial health care bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team have struggled to get moderates on board for that vote, and Tuesday’s results won’t make the task any easier.
“People who had weak knees before are going to have weaker knees now,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), a relatively liberal congressman who seemed safe in 2010 but now thinks a Republican challenger might feel emboldened by Tuesday’s election results.
Hat tip: Politico
Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t lie. She’s a strict Catholic.
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They were paying attention – for a professional politician, nothing trumps “reelection”.
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Hi everyone!
Check this out, great stuff…
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/charlie_crist_on_the_stimulus_1.asp
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Gee, politicians being worried about being fired for not representing the views of their constituents. Who would have thunk?
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Left wing protesters supporting the communist health care bill were removed from Senator Lieberman’s office this morning and placed under arrest. Shouting “represent Connecticutt, not Aetna”, they were upset b/c Lieberman has stated he will join the filibuster against the Reid bill.
On the other side of the Capitol, courteous and well-intentioned town hallers joined their Republican lawmakers in a lawn social.
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“WE GOT WALLOPED!”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29168.html