Yes, it seems as if America may be waking up to the fact that the last "big idea" to come from the modern Republican mind was "Drill baby drill". Democrats have once again taken over the lead in the generic Congressional ballot by a slim margin:
The tenuous 45 percent to 40 percent preference for a Democratic Congress reverses the finding a month ago on the same question: 44 percent for Republicans and 41 percent for Democrats. The new readout came as the economy continued showing signs of improvement and the tumultuous battle over the health care law that President Barack Obama finally signed in March faded into the background.
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Even more refreshingly, it seems as if maybe a lot of Americans outside of the Democratic Party are waking up to the fact that all this "tea party" hatred and hypocrisy is just a bunch of bluster and hot air with absolutely nothing of substance behind it:
"I'm a new Democrat," said Harley Smithson, 51, of Baltimore, who said he had recently switched from the GOP. "I want to be with a party that's for something instead of against everything."
Despite this, incumbents of both parties will be facing a very toxic environment to be re-elected in this fall. However, it appears as if stirring up the rabid and hate-filled faction to the far-right of their party may actually be backfiring on the Republicans:
Congressional Democrats win approval from only 37 percent, though congressional Republicans score an even drearier 31 percent. Democrats and Republicans are about evenly trusted to handle the economy, an issue Democrats once dominated and one that is crucial at a time when the country's job situation, though brightening, remains grim.
Only 36 percent said they want their own member of Congress to win re-election this fall, a noteworthy drop from the 43 percent who said so in April and the lowest AP-GfK poll measurement this year. Much of the restiveness seems to be among Republicans: While Democrats were about equally divided on the question, Republicans expressed a preference for a new face by a 2-to-1 margin.
"The Republican Party has more or less left me," said Mike Miller, 40, of Republic, Mo., a tea party backer who wants a new member of Congress. "Everybody's shifted to the left."
Oh dear. And everybody has their government hands on you Medicaire too I do believe.
Now don't get me wrong. Democrats have a lot of problems within their ranks they need to work out. The old stereotype of the Democrats being cowards and not fighting for what they believe in is alive and well and unfortunately has plenty of basis in fact. Even worse, far too many Democrats are just as much on the payroll of Corporate America as the Republicans and it is not that they will not fight for what they believe in that is the problem. The problem is they ARE fighting for what they believe in and it is not working America, but a warmed over version of modern Corporate Republicanism.
However, having said that the modern Republican Party is a quite scary bunch indeed. Their only solution to the massive failures of the rabid, hate-filled, corporate-controlled policies of the Bush Administration is to make them more rabid, hate-filled and corporate controlled. They have absolutely no new vision for anything, and offer up only more extreme versions of policies that have already failed as solutions on a daily basis.
We can only hope that Democrats will take heart of these new numbers and give the American people what they have been begging for since 2006. A truly alternative vision and most importanly the guts to fight for it. The time for compromise is over and in the months before November Democrats should be seen fighting, not compromising with the disgraced modern Republican Party and outlining the failed vision contained therein. Only then will they assure a Democratic majority for next year once again.
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