Many of us are bracing for a potential loss by Coakley tomorrow and the pundit bashing of Obama and the Democrats as well as the Republican snickers.
Obama's plan is NOT to go in a corner and wimper but to come out swinging.
His stance will be "Buckle up....Let's get some stuff done"!
http://www.politico.com/...
If Brown wins, Obama plans to make lemonade out of lemons by coming out in 2010 as "Mr. Populist" and being a fighter for the middle class. He will not be sulking in a corner and allow the Republicans to paint the mid-terms as a vote on him but rather will flip it on to the Republicans.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters that Democrats will not allow the midterms to become "a referendum on this administration," but instead will force Republicans to defend the role they have played in the economic crisis.
And Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said a key theme of 2010 will be asking voters "whether the people they have in Washington are on the side of protecting the big banks, whether they're on the side of protecting the big oil companies, whether they're on the side of protecting insurance companies, or whether they're on the people's side."
Obama doesn't plan to move more conservative but instead become more populist.
Already Obama’s rhetoric is reflecting what aides acknowledge is a strong undercurrent of populist anger in the electorate. By these lights, impatience with the status quo—rather than any rightward turn in the mood of the electorate—is what would fuel a Brown victory.
Already you are hearing Obama's switch in tone to more populism lately.
Reflecting his new tone, Obama last week announced a new fee on big banks by vowing, "We want our money back, and we're going to get it," Obama said as he announced a new fee on the nation’s largest banks. At a House Democratic retreat a few hours later, he said leaders need to be "fighting for the American people with the same sense of urgency that they feel in their own lives."
In his weekly address on Saturday, he declared: "We’re not going to let Wall Street take the money and run." Saluting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in remarks to a Baptist congregation the next day, Obama railed against "an era of greed and irresponsibility that sowed the seeds of its own demise."
At the rally for Coakley, he added: "Bankers don’t need another vote in the United States Senate. They've got plenty."
Obama plans to use this possible loss as a wake-up call now to him and the Democrats so that they can be on the side of the people by the mid-terms.
Democrats looking for shards of hope in a grim week say they take some consolation in having their political straits exposed early in the midterm election year, rather than the much later wake-up call for Democrats before the Republican revolution of 1994.
A very important point:
And one Democrat pointed out: "It’s not as if having 60 votes in the Senate has made life a walk in the park."
(Ben Nelson, Lieberman, etc)
Also, I personally want Obama to say to the Democrats in the Congress, let's just get health care done by the SOTU. We have been trying to do this for 70 damn years.
In all, I am pleased to see the Obama administration coming out swinging if indeed Brown wins tomorrow. He must make the Democrats on the side of the people because we know that the Republicans are not.