Comments on: A Need for Mutiny http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/a-need-for-mutiny/ Beyond left and right. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:05:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Henry Oliner http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/a-need-for-mutiny/comment-page-1/#comment-916 Henry Oliner Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:05:39 +0000 http://rebelyid.goroundhost.com/?p=2759#comment-916 I agree- The Dems lost the far left just as the Repubs lost the far right when McCain ran. Obama inherited a shitty economy and we would be hurting regardless, yet the policies of the first year have made it worse- I see it weekly. Employers are frozen. I think the revolt is over style. The promises of bipartisanship, openness, and transparency became lies. The blatant corruption of payoffs (Nelson) and favoritism (unions) is just more of the same or worse. The approach to health reform was all wrong. It was a blatant abuse of the majority. Reform does not have to be comprehensive- you focus on the areas of agreement and there were many. I agree that Brown ran as great a campaign as Coakley ran a bad one. It was not a referendum FOR Republicans as many on the right will play it- I think what we are witnessing in Mass and elsewhere is a period of post partisan politics. I agree- The Dems lost the far left just as the Repubs lost the far right when McCain ran.

Obama inherited a shitty economy and we would be hurting regardless, yet the policies of the first year have made it worse- I see it weekly. Employers are frozen.

I think the revolt is over style. The promises of bipartisanship, openness, and transparency became lies. The blatant corruption of payoffs (Nelson) and favoritism (unions) is just more of the same or worse.

The approach to health reform was all wrong. It was a blatant abuse of the majority. Reform does not have to be comprehensive- you focus on the areas of agreement and there were many.

I agree that Brown ran as great a campaign as Coakley ran a bad one. It was not a referendum FOR Republicans as many on the right will play it- I think what we are witnessing in Mass and elsewhere is a period of post partisan politics.

]]> By: Chazz Berg http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/a-need-for-mutiny/comment-page-1/#comment-915 Chazz Berg Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:07:30 +0000 http://rebelyid.goroundhost.com/?p=2759#comment-915 Up here in MA, the general feeling is not that this debacle is anything but bad politicking....that Coakley had never run for such an important office before, her campaign staff was amateurish and not prepared for an election that had such national visibility and outside interest, that she was overly confident, etc. If you look at approval ratings of the Obama administration (60%), one sees that the national ratings in this state don't reflect what happened to Coakley. Are people upset with Obama. Sure...lots of folks still out of work. But I've heard rumors that there's a phone polls up here show that a lot of lefty Dems stayed home because they're upset about the lack of public option in the healthcare bill, i.e. the Dems are losing the LEFT of the party...that would be an interesting development, no? Up here in MA, the general feeling is not that this debacle is anything but bad politicking….that Coakley had never run for such an important office before, her campaign staff was amateurish and not prepared for an election that had such national visibility and outside interest, that she was overly confident, etc. If you look at approval ratings of the Obama administration (60%), one sees that the national ratings in this state don’t reflect what happened to Coakley.

Are people upset with Obama. Sure…lots of folks still out of work. But I’ve heard rumors that there’s a phone polls up here show that a lot of lefty Dems stayed home because they’re upset about the lack of public option in the healthcare bill, i.e. the Dems are losing the LEFT of the party…that would be an interesting development, no?

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