Retribution May Not Play All That Well
It looks like Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority-Leader, may be setting up a Newt Gingrich style Democratic ‘Contract With America’ for the fall mid-term elections. Republicans in 1994 cashed-in on an electorate that was worn to the bone from 42 years of Democrats. People wanted new blood or, failing that, any kind of blood.
There’s something very American about that.
But whether or not Nancy’s strategy will play well this fall is an interesting question. We have a very wounded administration, an unpopular war and a Congress that’s arguably more up for sale than any time in history, on both sides of the isle.
It’s axiomatic that the side in control gets the blame. That’s the way the blame-game works in Washington.
Jonathan Weisman writes in the Washington Post that
“Democratic leaders, increasingly confident they will seize control of the House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their first week in power that would raise the minimum wage, roll back parts of the Repu…