re: #80 DaddyG

I contend they tried to take on too much too fast without listening to their constituents concerns. The town hall backlash and the tea parties are part of the reaction to that. Had the Dems built a case in stead of assuming the benefits of their plans were evident they would have had an easier time enacting the legislation.

There is a large dose of arrogance on the part of both major political parties and the Dems are not immune from it.

I suppose you may be right to some degree about the Democrats not selling their ideas well enough, but I’d say the town hall backlash and tea parties would have happened no matter what the Democrats had done. It’s not like those people were motivated by misunderstandings of Democratic plans.

I still think your original statement was way overstated, as if the Democrats were running roughshod implementing radical progressive legislation. It hasn’t been like that at all. It also sounded like the “balance fairy” had visited your fingers….