Okay, i'm a Brit and l follow Us politics, in fact i've been doing it for years. Right now l need some help from the Kos Community.
A fellow Brit has set up his own site on US politics but from the spectrum of the right
If anyone has seen the latest Rassmussen poll on Guantanamo? My fellow Brit is using the disconnect between President Obama's personal poll ratings and the disapproval of the policies concerning Guantanamo as proof that his popularity will erode which could allow a republican to slip in in 2012.
My response was that the republicans who are doing thier best to push out moderate voices from the party including kicking someone out who disagreed with limbaugh will decrease their base and make things harder for them.
I also pointed out that the weakness of Senate and Congressional Democrats who capitulate on the first bars of scary classical music in an advert was doing a disservice to the President, added to the DINO's like Evan Beyh and Ben Nelson who are looking to their own interests do the party as a whole no favours. Add that to the paucity of Democrats who are on the line ups for the major Sunday shows, you have a message on policies which is not being articulated properly.
Then came his challenge. He wanted me to write a piece on The Obama/Congressional "disconnect" and why it has happened. I have to say that further to what l had already replied l was at a loss.
And here's another point:
As much as people who blog here at Kos and on other liberal sites mock the likes of Jindall, Palin, Romney, Crist, Pawlenty, et all the brutal truth is they are out there at the moment. I couldn't name a single Democrat who has a profile who is out there and that is troubling. Obama will hopefully be President for eight years but surely with the state of the republican party being what it is at the moment moving people in place to become leaders as the older generation move on is just prudence? How many here remember that Tim Kaine is actually the DNC Chairman? What presence has he been compared to Howard Dean? Why is Barney Frank the only Democrat on TV who l have seen in the last few months seems to not only have brains but to have retained his testicles?
So, any ideas people?
The help would be greatly appreciated.