Either I'm too dense to understand what's really going on currently in the Democrat's campaigns for re-election, or the president's trying to insure that his party loses every major congressional seat up for grabs in November. Because it seems that every Dem candidate with an ounce of sense is avoiding him like some kind of plague, yet he insists on showing up to make speeches on their behalf's, and costing them more and more votes every time he opens his yap.
He's appeared in a slew of interviews and campaign stops, trying to fire Dems up to vote and avoid what looks likely to be a Republican takeover in the House of Representatives, maybe even the Senate. However, the smart candidates understand that the economy's recovering at a snail's pace and unemployment's still near 10 percent and don't want to be seen anywhere near him at all.
The topper is the president's claiming deep frustration that he and Democrats are getting little credit for moving through reforms of health care, financial regulation and a financial stimulus package that prevented, most economists think, the economy from plunging even further.
But on the other hand, the candidates are out in the field actually talking to their constituents for once, and hearing that not a single issue they've jammed into law is thought to be any good for anyone except for economists who wouldn't recognize the real world if it had a neon sign on it a thousand feet tall.
So here we have this catch-22, or 44, 66, 88 or whatever, where the guy who's caused all the problems feels he's losing his grip, and he's upset because his former cronies don't want to accompany him down the chute, they'd rather try to hold onto their proverbial "seats."
I guess in the end he'll wind up going back to his church in Chicago, after he himself is voted out two years from now. Except, they might not let him back in either because right now, it looks like he hasn't got any kind of a "prayer" at all.
That's it for today folks.
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