Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Our brethern of the southpaw persuasion seem to be working full-time on new ways to prove that tried-and-true saying.
The last time Democrats tried and failed to take over the entire Health Care industry, the voters remembered, and in the following year's election (1994) the American people tossed the Democrats out of every majority in the Federal government, and most states to boot. Stunned pundits groped for reasons why this could have happened, their search hampered by their inability to admit the truth that was in front of their faces: The American people don't like the Democrat politicians' government-uber-alles policies. Several Democrat pundits blamed the Congressional reversal instead on voter stupidity, voter immaturity, and generally on an electorate that should be lectured, not listened to.
Fast forward fifteen years or so. Democrats have once again tried, and likely failed, to take over the entire Health Care industry of the country. Voters are showing signs of remembering once again, and have kicked Democrats out in three state elections already, a harbinger of a possibly-major reversal in the next Congressional elections to follow the Dems' repeated attempt.
And sure enough, various Democrat pundits are blaming the reversals on... you guessed it... voter stupidity, voter immaturity, and an electorate that is dumb as a flock of dodos. As usual, you'll never see a single Democrat even admitting to the
possibility that there might be something wrong with their government-uber-alles agenda. No, the voters are just too stupid, and must be taken firmly in hand and have government control forced on them whether they like it or not.
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Opinion & Commentary - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com
Barack Obama, the Angry Left and the politics of intellectual contempt.
from "Best of the Web Today"
by JAMES TARANTO
Jan. 27, 2010
Last week Boston Globe columnist Renee Loth described the election of Scott Brown as "a collective primal scream." It's an old trope, reminiscent of the late Peter Jennings's classic declaration after the 1994 election:
Ask parents of any 2-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming.
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