From the WSJ:
WASHINGTON — Recent town-hall uproars weren’t just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the government is taking on too much at once.
That suggests trouble for the president’s Democratic Party, and fears of losses in next year’s midterm election are likely to shape the party’s fall agenda.
At August’s town-hall meetings, voters often started with complaints about health care, only to shift to frustrations about all the other things President Barack Obama and the Democrats have done or tried to do since January. The $787 billion economic-stimulus package, the government-led rescue of General Motors Corp. and climate-change legislation all came in for criticism.
“I have seen a level of dissatisfaction and even anger that I haven’t experienced in the years that I’ve been a member of Congress,” Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, told an audience at a health-care meeting in Kansas City on Monday.
Although the election is still far off, political forecasters predict that Democrats could run into trouble in the 2010 midterm vote.
“What we’re seeing now, both in terms of numbers and the feel out there, this is how big waves feel early on,” said Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report.
Health-care may be the hot button issue of today, however the people are beginning to rise up against this overreaching regime. It’s funny to me how something like this (see below) gets used as the mandate for everything…
Last year’s election gave Democrats a mandate for big changes that they feel still applies. They won seats by arguing that Republicans had failed to act to keep the housing market and financial system from crumbling. – emphasis mine
Okay, so you argued that the housing market sucked, and it was W’s fault for the financial blow up. Political posturing at best, but how does that equate to a government takeover of health-care, a nine trillion dollar projected deficit (don’t try to blame that one on W, some yes, most, no) and the rest of this overreach? The administration is quickly running of of rope. We’ve left them enough to tie the noose, and they are doing it very, very quickly.
2010 – The Senate will likely hold with a Democrat majority, the House I think flips back to the Republicans. Hopefully it isn’t too late.
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