Do Voters Keep Democrats on a Short Leash? Parsing History and the Midterms

Its called cutting your nose off to spite your face. A total show ignorance ,putting the same people back in that caused your problem in the first place, now we have a dead lock for the next two years,so the suffering will drag out.

Now that the Republicans have taken over the House, you people are going to be in for the surprise of your life. The republicans are going to cut the benefits for Social Security, Medicare and unemployment benefits. They told you this before the election that they were going to cut spending. These programs make up 75% of the budget. Forget "death squads". Medicare will not pay for any experimental cancer drug or anyone on life support who can not get better. On senator stated he would "shut the country down" if the health bill was not overturned. Do you realize what he is saying. If he can't have things his way he will cause thousands of people to be out of work. Of course he will still be working and getting a nice salary. I hope you don't work for the government.

LBJ was the last president from the Democratic Party, the next three were much further left, with the present one so far left as to be in his own party.

The problem the people have not kept any of their state or federal representatives on a leash. They elect their local officials and stay on them constantly by attending their meetings etc. They elect state and federal and then go about their business. Would you hire an employee to your business without keeping an eye on what they are doing? Elected officials are no different they are your employee you pay them with your tax dollars. some can be trusted on a leash others need a short leash with a choker chain.

I appreciate the electorate in states that overturned the predictable. I'm in a blue-dog state, and the races were very close. I hope those elected will remember the viable opposition when they go to Washington. There's no great mandate for you here in CT. Remember Pelosi and her arrogance. Hoping for the best in CT.

Could it be that chronically acting in disregard of the voters' expressed opinions on policy gets you a bit of blowback? What are the limits of denial here, anyway?

It seems clear that Dems need to be kept on a very short leash. Every time they take power the far left liberal agenda including spending, big govt, abortion, and amnesty for illegals quickly begins to take center stage and America boots them again. And in all fairness, when the religious right tries to hijack the GOP it does not fare much better. People want conservative spending, small government, and far less intrusion into our personal lives. Not so hard to understand.

Every American should hold all politicians (local, State and Federal) responsible everyday of their political lives...a short leash yanked hard regular. Sitting on our collective citzens butts is what caused this mess we find ourselves in in the first place.

Wow. These people in the media and the Dem leadership really don't get it do they? No, it isn't that the voters have the Dems on a shorter leash than they do the Republicans. It is that the Dems pushed through highly unpopular legislation by parliamentary trickery and backroom payoffs while promising to be transparent in their negotiations. It is about the Dems in general, and this administration in particular, absoluting refusing to work in anything resembling a bipartisan manner. The quote from Obama, "Elections have consequences and I won" struck a sour chord with many voters. Add to that the appearance that the Dems are apologists for our percieved shortcomings constantly. One of the reasons Reagan was such a popular president is because he DIDN'T constantly trash our country and apologize to other countries. No, it isn't that the voters have the Dems on a shorter leash. It's that the voters are intolerant of a party that shows such arrogance and disregard for the people that voted them in. And the media and the Dems are still trying to avoid the truth that is obvious to almost everyone else in the country.

"The two presidents are George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who respectively prevented further terrorist attacks on American soil and a repeat of the Great Depression." How do you know that? It is easy to tell "no further terrorist attacks on American soil" but how the heck can you prove "prevented a repeat of the Great Depression"?!?!?!? Or maybe you just buy into what each CLAIMED? Perhaps there would not have been a Great Depression" anyway. Don't know.