OBAMA RESURRECTS ‘AUDACITY TO WIN’ AUTHOR TO STOP “BED WETTING”
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It is symptomatic of a profound misunderstanding of today’s America that Obama has resurrected David Plouffe, 43, the political strategist who managed his 2008 presidential campaign is back – this time in the White House – to “save” his presidency and hence the Democrat party from a debacle in 2010 and he in 2012..
His first public action was to say in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece published Sunday now is not the time for “bed-wetting” after the party lost a Massachusetts Senate election to pick-up driving Scott Brown.
“This will be a tough election for our party and for many Republican incumbents as well,” Plouffe writes. “Instead of fearing what may happen, let’s prove that we have more than just the brains to govern — that we have the guts to govern.”
Plouffe acknowledged the challenge won’t be easy because the governing party typically loses in midterm elections, but he urged courage, writing, “We may not have perfect results, but November will be nothing like the nightmare that talking heads have forecast.”
And, Plouffe added, “Let’s fight like hell, not because we want to preserve our status, but because we sincerely believe too many everyday Americans will continue to lose if Republicans and special interests win.”
Plouffe and the often ascerbic David Axelrod continue to signal and urge the resurrection of Obamacare which is now opposed by over 60% of the nation;s voters.
Both are ignoring voter dissatisfaction with Washington and the direction of healthcare reform contributed to Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate win in Massachusetts, a survey suggests.
In the poll, conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University’s School of Public Health, 63 percent of Massachusetts’ special-election voters say the country is seriously off-track. Of those, two-thirds voted for the Republican state senator over Democrat Martha Coakley to serve out the term of the late Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat who held the seat for nearly 47 years.
Respondents listed jobs and the economy as the most important issues. Overall, two-thirds of those who voted for Brown said they did so at least partly because of opposition to the Democratic agenda in Washington.
Three in four respondents said they want Brown to work with Democrats to inject Republican thinking into legislation. A smaller proportion — less than half — said they want Brown to work with Democrats specifically on healthcare legislation.
The survey revealed a decline in the proportion of voters who said the government should do more to solve problems. In 2008, 63 percent of Massachusetts voters said the government should do more, compared with 50 percent in the new poll.




