This would be a much better article if it was actually founded in reality.
Despite tanking poll numbers both for themselves and their president, congressional Democrats have persisted for months in a stunning act of political self-destruction. The evaporation of home-state support for Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and the retirements of Christopher Dodd and Byron Dorgan should give the White House and the congressional majority pause...It's not surprising that a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch would repeat misinformation and misdirections.
Most of these strategies are laughable at best.
10) Face up to why the party lost in 2006 and 2008.
Because they took the country for a joyride, crashed it, and then got upset when they were held accountable for their actions? I'd love to see any member of the GOP admit that.
6) For the midterm election, unite around a clear agenda of repeal. The party should give its candidates a list of programs and spending that will be up for cancellation the hour a Republican Congress is sworn in. At the top of the list should be the Troubled Asset Relief Program, unspent stimulus funds, and the health-care overhaul.
Yes, please run on the platform of denying 30 million people health care coverage. I think some people might get angry about the government getting involved with their Medicare. Don't mind that steadily amplifying whistling sound. That's just the sound of your political career in a nose-dive toward self-destruction.
5) Add in an agenda of market-freeing reforms in health care, energy, environmental and education policy. Scholarly centers such as the Hoover Institution, the Pacific Research Institute, and the Manhattan Institute have developed market-freeing solutions to health inflation, energy dependence, real and immediate environmental challenges, and education quality. Reform for congressional Democrats means more spending and more mandates. After the health-care debate the nation has rejected that 1930s-style model. The new model's time has come.
Exsqueeze me? Baking powder? Did I just hear you right? YOU MORONS ARE THE ONES THAT PUT US IN THE 1930S TO BEGIN WITH. Then we are led to believe that these three institutes have boldly put forth new solutions that will revolutionize America and save us from the gol'dern kommonists. Only, all three of those are well-known conservative, libertarian think tanks(read: policy shills). Need some research to back up your point that removing restrictions on logging will keep our forests healthier? Call up one of these guys. They make Aaron Eckhart's character in Thank You For Smoking look like a saint.
2) Tax cuts must be part of the answer. The surpluses of the late '90s were to a significant extent a product of the growth in revenues that came after the capital gains tax was cut. The Democrats' theology—actually economic superstition—prohibits them from renewing the 2003 tax cuts, the looming expiration of which has been a drag on the economy ever since they recaptured Congress.
Oh really? Then why is there a sharp upswing in debt every single time a Republican takes office? I'll tell you why. Republicans aren't interested in doing the most good for the most people in our country. They're interested in doing the most good for their people in our country, namely, those poor beleaguered millionaires who unjustly have to pay taxes. Tax cuts are the Republicans theology, a term more appropriate to a party that wants to run America like a theocracy anyway.
I wholly recommend reading the rest of this vomit-inducing lie festival. The Wall Street Journal is always good entertainment.
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