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November 23, 2009

'Roll Obama Back' - It's more than a bumper sticker

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Jed Babbin quips in his must-read piece at Human Events: "Roll Obama Back. It's more than a bumper sticker-ready slogan: it's a concise statement of the promise to put America back on the right track":

[...] if Republicans choose to be bold -- if they promise to repeal and not just whittle at the Obama spending spree -- they can capture the political energy of the Tea Partyers and the Republican base. McConnell gets it: he proposed repeals of the unspent stimulus. But there needs to be a comprehensive itemization of the repeals as a foundation of the Republican campaigns. They can recapture the House and reduce the Democratic Senate majority to an unworkable margin only with a bold plan. As Cong. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) likes to say, a Congressional minority plus the American people equals a majority.

And they will have to be aggressive and uncompromising to do so because the other thing that's going on is that the Democrats are already campaigning on cutting the deficit they created. They are as brazen as Demi Moore if she were campaigning for modesty.

For President Obama and congressional Democrats to campaign successfully on deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility, they would have to believe that Americans are either ignorant of or uncaring about what they have done since January and what they intend to do next year.

But as the Tea Partyers and all the other voices of August proved, Americans are as politically engaged as they have ever been. If Republicans choose to be bold -- to promise they'll roll back the nationalization of healthcare, the financial industry and the automakers -- they can win in 2010 and beyond. If they propose small cuts and tinkering with what Obama has done, and if they don't reach out to the angry independents the Democrats may yet get away with it.

Read it all ...

Posted by Richard at November 23, 2009 9:49 AM

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