O'Failure

Thursday: overslept « The Confluence: "...I don’t know who the hell E.J. has been talking to but from a practical, non-abstract, working class POV, this president has been an abject failure. You don’t have to be a liberal to realize that but liberals have every reason to have expected better than this. I don’t believe in the self-esteem movement where everyone gets a gold star for trying. I believe you have no right to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread until you’ve proven yourself. Republicans aren’t becoming suddenly sexy again because regular Americans are crazy about conservatism . There are two reasons why Republicans are winning: 1.) Americans don’t buy the boosterism of the current administration. No one believes in Recovery Summer or Recovery Fall or Recovery Winter or whatever nonsense they’re spouting this week. They’re believing their lying eyes. and 2.) When your base stays home in disgust, that leaves the Fox News viewers who have been emotionalized by Glenn Beck and abortion as the motivated voters who actually go to the polls..."