Montana: Democrats

by  problembear
the republicans who are so weak they couldn’t stop serious health care reform now if they tried,  must be sipping champagne with their friends in the health insurance field now thanks to the democrats…..
who needs to win elections when you can get the party who defeated you to do all your heavy lifting  for [...]

Anyone who watched the Republican strategy over the recent Congressional stimulus package had to be scratching their head. I mean...marching in lock-step in opposition to a spending plan intended to create jobs and build infrastructure...while millions were losing their jobs? What was weirder still was that the media thought, well, that the GOP was back, baby!

Sunday Frank Rich wrote a much more erudite column on this topic than I could muster. In short, Rich noted that the cable tv and talk radio doom-and-gloom talk about Obama, Congressional Democrats, and the stimulus plan and the subsequent suberserviance to the punditocracy to that message was the result of the DC-insider "echo chamber.