The Labor Day Nightmare for Democrats

By Rod Pennington

Labor Day traditionally marks the point where politics in an election year starts to get serious. Now is time when trends begin to harden and the pool of undecided voters starts to shrink.

For the Democrats, there is almost nothing to cheer about this time around.  The economy is floundering, unemployment is off the charts, the war in Afghanistan is not going very well and Iran is about to become a nuclear power.

Everything points toward a huge wipeout by the Democrats this November and they have no one to blame but themselves.

America doesn’t like the new laws the Democrats have passed.

While they may be swooning in San Francisco and the Upper West Side, a majority of American’s, 58%, wants to repeal the Democrats signature bill, health care reform.   While it may have been an “f**king big deal” to VP Joe Biden; to the rest of the country not so much.

The huge stimulus bill has not turned the economy around and the Obama Administration’s “Summer of Recovery” has turned into a late night talk show punch line.  The Democrats promised if the $800 billion dollar plus “stimulus” bill was passed unemployment would stay under 8%. Instead it soared to over 10% until the Department of Labor started “cooking the books” and arbitrarily dropping people from the count.

The Democrats haven’t followed the sage advice of former Pres. Bill Clinton, “It’s the Economy, Stupid.”

Other than the pork laden “Stimulus” bill, Democrats have not only ignored the economy they have actually made it worse.  The “finance reform” bill may make big government liberal’s hearts go pitty pat but for now it is a job killer. There is too much uncertainty about this new law and its evil twin, the heath care reform bill. In this environment, no business person in their right mind would be hiring unless they had to. Until the dust settles on these massive pieces of legislation and business people figure out how it impacts them, a 9.5% unemployment rate will be the norm.

The Democrats, with their default “soak the rich” mentality”, are actually agonizing over letting the Bush era tax cuts expire.  The idea of raising taxes during a recession has everyone other than frothing at the mouth liberals scratching their heads.  New jobs are created by cutting taxes to encourage businesses to take more risks. Raising taxes and piling on new regulations is the perfect formula only if your goal is to kill job growth in the private sector.

The Democrats have fought hard for the extension of unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks. This is only 5 weeks short of the maximum lifetime limit a person is allowed to remain on the welfare rolls. The Wall Street Journal and Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) have been highly critical of this approach.

On jobs, the only ones the Democrats seem to worry about are those of their biggest supporters. See: Why a Teacher’s Job is More Important to Democrats than Yours. A full one third of the “stimulus” money went to the Democrats largest donors – teachers and public employee unions. People have started to notice.

President Obama isn’t helping.

Mr. Obama’s wadding into the “Mosque” controversy in New York City was a political blunder of Biblical proportions.  A simple, “it is a local issue” was all that was needed to be said. By the leader of their party taking such a forceful stand in favor of building a Mosque so close to “Ground Zero”, this means every Democratic candidate can expect to be asked their position. With 70% of the people disagreeing with Mr. Obama they will have will an uncomfortable choice. Disagree with your sitting president or alienate a good portion of your voters.

Next was the ill advised contesting of the Arizona immigration law. In this case, a clear majority of Americans support Arizona’s right to defend its own borders if the federal government refuses to. Not only was this an embarrassing unforced error, now a growing list of  states – including Virginia, Michigan, Florida, Utah, Oklahoma, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, Arkansas, South Dakota, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Maryland and Tennessee – are considering or already have passed laws similar to Arizona’s.

If the Arizona immigration issue wasn’t bad enough for vulnerable Democrats, this week the Obama administration bad-mouthed Arizona to, of all people, the United Nations.  The London Telegraph summed it up perfectly. Barack Obama has bowed before the UN over Arizona immigration law. There are 47 incumbent House Democrats running in districts which were won by Sen. John McCain in 2008. They must all be banging their heads on their desks right about now.

Holding the House of Representative appears to be a lost cause for Democrats and with each passing day it looks more likely they may lose the Senate as well. The Democrats will troop out the only thing they have left. The tired old excuse about how terrible the economy they inherited from President Bush is. The problem, the Democrats have had the Congress for the past four years and the White house for two. The expiration date on “blame Bush” has run out.

For More Information see: Democrats Labor Day Senate Race Poll Numbers Blues

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