As bad as the BP mine has been, it pales in comparison to the super torpedo left over by the Repubs, the economy. The inevitable collapse of deregulated, high-risk financial pyramid system they - with help from searching for the center Democrats -- put in place is one reason why the Dems gained power in the first place. But the economic injury is so deep that the sluggish jobs recovery is now doing the Democrats political harm. The latter are in a bind. If they did not raise the deficit with stimulus spending to boost jobs the credit strapped private sector cannot produce they would catch it, but the resulting deficits are driving voters to the Republicans who got us into this mess and will do so again if they get the opportunity. The conundrum the Republicans created is good for their near term electoral hopes. Just how much so we will soon see, there is some evidence that enough Americans are recalling how badly the right runs things that GOP gains may be blunted this election - or maybe not. But the disproof of Republican laissez-faire economics is not going to help out the GOP over the years.
Then there is the Iraq/Afghanistan foreign policy jam that incompetent Republican governance laid in the lap of the Obama administration.
It is a scientific fact that humans are not particularly rational, which is why wild west capitalism does not work as well as its advocates think it should libertarians are not particularly rational about these things so voters are prone to lashing out in an illogical manner when things are not going good. What Americans need to ask them selves this election cycle is whether for all the Democrats' faults, is it really a good idea to give more power to the Republicans whose policies are most responsible for the crappy situations we are in? And Democrats need to remember that when the replace Republicans as the governing party they are The Cleaning Crew, so get down and clean up the mines the Repubs left behind before they go boom.
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