Since there still seems to be some bizarre combination of excuse-making, reality dodging, blame-shifting, and general confusion among the right as to why Obama won, let me lay it out real simple for you:
Two Wars Dow at 8000 when it was up near 14000 a short bit ago Our financial industry so screwed up that we are spending trillions to rescue ourselves At the very least, five trillion in national debt over the last eight years $500 billion deficit A deep recession for the last year while all Republicans did was say we are not "officially" in a recession. Rising unemployment Stagnant wages Skyrocketing health care costs $4 dollar a gallon gasoline And on and on and on. The Republicans have lost the last two elections not because of media bias, but because they are being blamed for the current mess we are in, and they are being blamed for good reason. Until 2006 they controlled Congress and the White House, right now they control the White House. The Republicans did not lose because of media bias. Dan Rather wasn't in New Orleans knocking water bottles out of people's hands at the convention center. Brian Williams didn't crash the stock market. Keith Olbermann didn't invade Iraq. Chris Matthews doesn't run OPEC. Republicans lost because they were in charge of the country for the better part of the last decade, and their governance has been an unmitigated disaster. This is not rocket science. You can argue that democrats should share some of the blame for some of the policies, and you would not get any disagreement from me, but that does not change the fact that the Republicans were in charge, and blew it. ~~ John Cole, former Republican http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=14275
