Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!



Recent Entries
Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024
Captain Hate 2023
moon_over_vermont 2023
westminsterdogshow 2023
Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022
Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022
OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me
Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups





















« Obama: The Public Is Discontented With Me Because They're So Goshdarn Mad At Congress | Main | Ryan Will Not Run for President; Decision is "Final" »
August 22, 2011

In Race To Replace Anthony Weiner, NYT Surprised To Find That The New Yorkers They're Supposed To Cover Aren't Thrilled With Obama

In a comment to the last post, Ben wrote:

When Republicans win it's because the public is angry or acting irrationally.

When the Democrats win it is a repudiation of Republican principles and ideas.

In an election where some 63 democratic house members lose to republicana and two republican congressmen lose their seats to democrat, it is a anti-incumbent election.

When Democrats prevent Republican legislation it is a principled stand.

When Republicans prevent Democrat legislation it is because they are petulant.

When Democrats cannot pass their social engineering programs, it is because the country is ungovernable.

When Democratic policies are unpopular it is because the President(or democrats) did a poor job selling or explaining the programs.

It goes on and on.

At Hot Air, this NYT quote finds them doing just that, yet again.

Dale Weiss, a 64-year-old Democrat, approached the Republican running for Congress in a special election and, without provocation, blasted the president for failing to tame runaway federal spending. “We need to cut Medicaid,” she declared, “but he won’t do that.” She shook her head in disgust. “He is a moron.”

After nodding approvingly for a time, the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, signaled for an assistant to cut off Ms. Weiss. Frustration with Mr. Obama is so widespread, he explained later, that he tries to limit such rants to about 30 seconds, or else they will consume most of his day. …

The race was widely viewed as a sleepy sideshow — a mere formality that would put David I. Weprin, a Democratic state assemblyman and heir to a Queens political dynasty, into a seat known for its deep blue hue.

Instead, the race has become something far more unsettling to Democrats: a referendum on the president and his party that is highlighting the surprisingly raw emotions of the electorate.

Raw emotions, see? Irrational. We're just all crazypants because we don't understand that Obama's policies will bear fruit in the year 2057 when we finally land a man on Mars.

I'd be curious to ask a media type -- put Anderson Cooper on the spot, say -- if he could name a single election in which Republicans won in which he'd say the public embraced Republican policies, and weren't simply reacting emotionally to a "flawed Democratic candidate" (Kerry, Gore) or a "poor messaging campaign" (the 2010 midterms) or having "a temper tantrum" (the 1994 Republican capture of Congress).

I don't think they'd confess that even with Reagan, who is long dead and therefore safe for the Democrats to praise. But the media would say the public was simply reacting to the poor economic and foreign policy record of Jimmy Carter, rather than affirmatively choosing the Reaganite policy prescriptions.

And, even to the extent they did, they'd be responding to his "simplistic" messages.

I have never in my life understood the liberal claim that Republican messages are "simplistic" and easy to explain to the dummies whereas Democratic messages are complex and involve all sorts of higher-level cognitive functions which the public cannot easily digest.

The Democrats want to give people free shit and make other people pay for it.

Um, this is complicated?

You know what's complicated? Trying to argue that higher taxes on the rich cause the secondary effect of a punitive environment for wealth creation and wind up discouraging economic risk (no reward, in this case, means no risk) and therefore tends to create a flat or negative growth rate.

Compare that to "free shit" which we're going to make "corporate fatcats" buy for you.

Complicated: I realized there is one way in which Democratic policies are "complicated."

Most Democratic policies are designed to hide the fact that the middle class will end up funding them in one way or the other. If you're spending trillions, you cannot avoid taking a large chunk of that from the middle class -- and the middle class is where the money is, in aggregate.

Rich people have a lot of money, as individuals, but there aren't many of them; the number of super-rich is tiny.

But the middle class has a fair amount of money as individuals, and 60% of the country is middle class.

So the "complexity" in Democratic schemes comes mainly in the form of a deliberately obscure funding mechanism which is crafted precisely to hide the fact that bulk of the funding for Democratic schemes is coming right out of the hide of the middle class.

Like ObamaCare, for example.

But the public often -- not enough, but often -- sees through this and even if they don't get the exact details of the complicated forced-subsidy scheme, they can figure out whether they're going to be net winners in these games or net losers.

When a majority of the middle class accurately deduces they are being asked to pay (or give up some of their own health-care benefits) to fund someone else, the media calls them either stupid or irrational for failing to be deceived by Democratic claims.

Actually, they wised up. And the media is angry at them for wising up.



digg this
posted by Ace at 01:43 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
IrishEi: "Hey, Straw! Where ya been? ..."

Alexandria: "And I want elevators....but not ones that go up al ..."

BourbonChicken: "Nessun Dorma, mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins h ..."

Cicero (@cicero43): "253 AOC wants all the buildings in NYC torn down a ..."

Notorious BFD: "[i]AOC wants all the buildings in NYC torn down an ..."

JackStraw: "Thank you Irish. ..."

Moki: "222 Moki and RMBS, I just hope I get the seasoning ..."

AlaBAMA: "241 AOC wants all the buildings in NYC torn down a ..."

AlaBAMA: "Will someone please tell Tim Walz to get off my la ..."

Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ [/i][/b][/u][/s]: "[i]I kinda like her. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Jailho ..."

Alberta Oil Peon: " AOC wants all the buildings in NYC torn down and ..."

Alberta Oil Peon: " ‘I beat yo ass, dynaso don’t come rou ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64