Always a thoughtful observer of the political scene, Newsweek‘s Jonathan Alter dispassionately suggests this week that Democrats think twice about staying home and turning over control of Congress to “extremist senators” such as Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn:
A question for Democrats disinclined to work on congressional campaigns:
do you know the GOP agenda? In brief: repeal health-care reform, so if
you lose your job and your kid gets sick, you may have to sell the
house; repeal financial reform, so Wall Street scammers and predatory
lenders can return to doing everything they did before they wrecked the
economy; maintain corporate-welfare subsidies that move jobs overseas;
reduce spending by slashing education funding; and ending all
clean-energy projects aimed at curbing our dependence on Mideast oil.
And people wonder about the future of mainstream media outlets.
