I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall today when Barry went about the supposed soliciting of advice from his party's senators. Because I’d be willing to bet that during this little get together there were some Democrat voices that may have come through a lot louder than others. I’m talking about the voices of those nearly two dozen senators who are facing re-election this year. With control of the Senate potentially at stake here, many of those Democrats are now running like scalded dogs as they seek any way possible to distance themselves from Barry who has become pretty unpopular in some of their home states.
And since publicly announcing what his goals are for the coming year in his State of the Union address last week, Barry has become much more clandestine in how he goes about getting together with congressional Democrats. Apparently, a day after having hosted House Democrats in the East Room, Barry will be traveling to the baseball stadium where the Washington Nationals play to meet up with Senate Democrats who will be holding what’s described as being an annual private summit. Democrats seem to be taking some pretty unusual steps to make sure that no one is actually seen with Barry.
So with prospects for capturing the House this year, and return Pelosi to Speaker, having been reduced to the point where they are now pretty much nonexistent, Democrats have re-intensified their focus on at least being able to maintain their control of the Senate. But their rather tenuous majority will be toppled in November if they lose more than five seats out of 21 they will be working to defend. Although Barry has had to somewhat rein in his hopes for an ambitious second-term, due to Republican control of the House, his final years in office would be even more constrained should Democrats actually lose the Senate.
And in what appears to be an effort to assist those Democrats, who face tough races this year in conservative-leaning states that voted against Barry in 2012, in their effort to hoodwink the voters, the White House and Democrat leadership have given wide latitude to those who have publicized their disagreements with Barry. But it’s that same criticism that also serves as a reminder that Barry's ability to aid fellow Democrats this year may be rather limited. After all, it’s rather difficult to remain credible when, on one hand your claiming to oppose Barry, while on the other you’re seen trooping around the campaign trail together.
We’re told that this little brain-storming session between Barry and Democrat senators today will be focused not on the election but rather on his legislative agenda, including an unemployment insurance extension, a minimum wage hike and an expansion of the earned income tax credit. Spokesmoron Carney said, "It's part of an overall approach, running up to and in the wake of the State of the Union address, where the president is meeting with Democrats who share his priorities and vision when it comes to taking action to strengthen the middle class and to provide ladders of opportunity into the middle class."
Still, having said that, the White House has taken some steps to show that it is keenly attuned to the midterm dynamic that looms over every decision lawmakers will make this year. On Monday, Barry brought ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid, his campaign chairman and the head of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee to the White House to talk ‘strategy’ for 2014. And barely a week ago, Barry resurrected the White House political office that he disbanded in 2011, tasking top adviser David Simas with overseeing a team that will look out for the ‘needs’ of Democrat candidates. So I’m quite sure that work has already begun on the cooking up of some rather unsavory stuff.
The problem for some Democrats is "Obamacare" because it poses the clearest threat as Republicans vow to use the unpopular law to club over the head Democrats who voted for it. For other Democrats, niche issues like energy that acutely affect their states may play an outsize role in their campaigns. Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana was one of five Democrats who joined Republicans on Tuesday at a rare bipartisan news conference to call on Barry to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil on its way from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. But let’s not be fooled, because I’m quite sure that if she should gain re-election she will once again become a staunch opponent of building the pipeline.
Look, it’s all pretty simple. The bottom line here is that if we, the American people, are stupid enough to allow ourselves to be convinced that there exists some supposed rift between these Democrats and Barry, then we deserve whatever we get. Because when these people are out on the campaign trail telling us all about how much they disagree with Barry, we will need to see that for what it is. Which is nothing more than one huge crock of shit. Because once they get re-elected, if they get re-elected, you can bet your bottom dollar that the day after the election they’ll once again be one big happy socialist family. They’ll once again be arm in arm with the very same guy who they told us was someone that they vehemently disagreed with.
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