Rep. Paul Ryan, on the scene of the melt down, reports:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, tells National Review Online that Democrats are entering a “panic mode” as November approaches. “They are beginning to get a little unhinged,” Ryan says.
“The Left sees their agenda being rebuked by the voters this fall,” Ryan tells us. As their electoral worries mount, he says, Democrats are scurrying to “nullify any notion that there is an alternative path for America. They want to delegitimize an alternative plan and win the argument by default, making the case that there is no other path for America than what progressives have mapped out for the country, and that any other talk, of any other idea, is just fanciful.”
“That’s what’s troubling,” Ryan says. “They are trying to deny the debate that must happen if we are going to get out of the mess that we’re in.”…
The dream of decades is dying – they thought that McGovern would do it; but he lost. They thought that Carter might pull it off; but he was defeated for re-election. They thought that Clinton would ram it on through; but he betrayed them and tacked to the center to ensure his own political survival. Now comes Obama – and the left was sure they had it in the bag.
And to a certain extent, they did – a hard left ideologue was elected along with a Congress led by the furthest left part of the Democrat party. And President and Congress did start to work – but then something happened the left never expected: the people immediately reacted against it. And then it just got worse and worse – the people started to spontaneously organize and began to exert populist pressure on the GOP to shift towards the people. Capping it all off, the liberal prescription for the economy – which all liberals were convinced would work – crashed and burned.
Now they are facing a complete rejection – not just the normal mid-term losses, but the risk of the sort of losses you spend 20 years recovering from. 20 years in which, of course, the other side can repeal and replace everything you’ve done. Faced with this stark fact, they are getting in a panic – not knowing what to do, they are running around trying one expedient after another to survive.
It won’t work – its too late in the game…
