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Democrats wary after odd-year election
Congressional Democrats point to the number of independent voters who flocked to Republican gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey, helping them defeat Democratic candidates. They're warning that results indicate independent voters are wary of President Barack Obama's sweeping proposals, and mounting federal spending and debt, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
"The question is, do people think we're tending to the things they care about?" Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., said as he left a Senate leadership meeting Wednesday. He said colleagues were concerned that the main items Democrats pursue -- healthcare and climate change -- don't connect with voters trying to find or keep their jobs.
"Don't think people in my state are going to stand up and start cheering about Copenhagen," Rockefeller said, referring to the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Danish capital in December. Critics of climate change legislation moving through Congress said it would kill jobs in states dependent on manufacturing and natural resources, the Post said.
Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic strategist and a top congressional aide when Democrats lost control of the House in a 1994 GOP landslide, said Wednesday lawmakers are less sanguine now than they were 15 years ago.
"They need to pay attention to it," Elmendorf said. "Voters spoke, and I think the message they sent was they care about the economy and they care about jobs. I don't think there's any reason to panic here. We have to get healthcare done, and then we have to turn our attention to the economy and jobs."
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This news arrived on: 11/05/2009
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11-07-2009 09:36
JDB wrote:
Undue Credit
Right on, Redneck! If they would fix the economy and jobs, people, at least, some people, might be able to afford health insurance. Making everybody pay for government-controlled health care without a job or economy is just plain STUPID and I am beginning to think that the idiot in the White House ought to return to elementary school for a crash course in common sense and take his moronic staff with him! If all they can come up with in a crisis is socialist B***S*** policies, they really haven't learned much. We don't need totalitarian Hitlerite social policies to fix what is wrong with our society. And when we do, we, the people, ought to start with the elected and work down.
11-07-2009 09:00
Redneck wrote:
So Elemdorf says: (paraphrased) We have to ram through this control bill we call "healthcare" and after that destroys a few million jobs we can concentrate on what is left of the economy--and destroy that with "cap and Trade" And with everybody but government employees unemployed we can completely overthrow the government and institute true communism! Think about it! "you will know them by their actions" not their promises!
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