The Party of Ideas.

One of the most popular tactics in politics is distraction, with the objective being to keep the press and hopefully population focused on your negative narrative of the opposistion. This gives you cover and avoids the sunshine illuminating your own shortcomings.

Keep that in mind.

The budget debate is slowly rising to a boil, making the beloved "blue dog" democrats squirm a little as they contemplate voting for 3.6 trillion dollars of whatever, and then having to go home and explain why. The liberal trifecta of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid will assuredly get almost all they want and give up nothing they care about. There will be a staged compromise with the "moderates" and the promise of deep, sincere bi-partisanship is kept. As for those insignificant Republicans, well all they do is say no and are obstructionist. This is very dangerous we are told by the press, for how do they possibly oppose such a deeply popular President, their President.

I've noticed the Left's latest label for the GOP is they are the party of no ideas. I'm not going to dwell on the quality of GOP counterproposals to Obama's agenda so far, its not relevant. I've noticed alot of political commentators drumming up love for the big O by writing that finally we have a President that is doing something. Never mind what he's doing, if it is a good idea, or if it will actually work. At least he tries, at least he cares. So the bar is met as it is lowered and finally removed altogether. Because it is the idea of Obama's mystic that counts, not his actual policy. He has big ideas alright, and they are horrible. Given a choice between no ideas and horrible ones, I'll take inaction everytime. How many times have you heard politicans say about government intervention on the economy "we have to do something"? I suppose if Congress did a rain dance outside the capitol they would be doing something. Prehaps yoga lessons would help them concentrate. If the point is just to be seeen doing something I don't understand why that means spending record amounts of yet to be printed money.

But again its all a distraction. The truth is the Left has such bad ideas they have to keep the attention on a super minority GOP who has no power whatsoever for having a lack of an agenda. Perhaps the Dems would like to let the Republicans have power back and see if they have any ideas then to their liking. Its the Democrat's burden to have GOOD policy right now, and on that front they are failing. Their majority is too big not to fail I am afraid.