“Jon Stewart is right,” [Progressive Change Campaign Committee founder Adam ] Green says. “President Obama could have fought for and passed the public option, a more effective stimulus, and… he refused to step on Republican toes, pre-emptively caved to senators with no mandate to oppose him, and refuses to acknowledge his mistakes as Democratic candidates across the country face an uninspired electorate as a result. Democrats need to learn the right lesson from this year's election, which is voters will show up if you fight harder for a popular progressive agenda."
I don’t think Democratic politicians spend much time studying real life lessons.
“I think Jon Stewart is about as good an interviewer as there is in the public domain right now,”[ White House Press Secretary Robert] Gibbs told reporters. “I certainly -- we didn’t walk into that interview with -- thinking that we were going to get asked a bunch of softball questions and somebody was going to hand us a list of jokes that -- and they’d hit the laugh machine and it would sound like a bunch of people -- we didn’t expect that to happen.”
Does Gibbs have a mouse in his pocket? Can he get his head through a door these days? “We” indeed.
Gibbs suggested that Stewart and other liberal critics don’t reflect the wider views of the party base.“I think this overall notion of huge disappointment among Democratic voters is -- it is not matched in any of the empirical data,” he said.
Wasn’t he the guy who was just shaking a finger at Democrats and Progressives – “the professional left” – for being crybabies?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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