When you're so clueless that Saturday Night Live mocks your political strategy in their opening segment, maybe it's a sign that you should consider getting outside of the Washington bubble once in a while...
This segment pretty much nails it. It's not so much funny as it is sad. Republicans are so trapped in the Washington echo chamber they actually seem to think they won the week. Frank Rich lays this bare...
Overdosing on this culture can be fatal. Because Republicans are isolated in that parallel universe and believe all the noise in its echo chamber, they are now as out of touch with reality as the "inevitable" Clinton campaign was before it got clobbered in Iowa. The G.O.P. doesn’t recognize that it emerged from the stimulus battle even worse off than when it started. That obliviousness gives the president the opening to win more ambitious policy victories than last week’s. Having checked the box on attempted bipartisanship, Obama can now move in for the kill.
I’m waiting to see if they jump on SNL’s suggestion and start a campaign against the Obama kids having White House sleepovers.
Fortunately, the president and his advisors are well aware of the dangers of the echo chamber. An exasperated David Axlerod notes
"This town talks to itself and whips itself into a frenzy with its own theories that are completely at odds with what the rest of America is thinking," he says. Once the frenzy got going, it didn’t matter that most polls showed support for Obama and his economic package: "If you watched cable TV, you’d see our support was plummeting, we were in trouble. It was almost like living in a parallel universe."
I look forward to president Obama getting out and selling is plans to real people around the country, while his critics stay in Washington and listen to themselves talk....