Lanny Davis, who spent several years as key advisor and spin doctor for Bill Clinton, is offering fellow Democrats advice — a “pivot” as he calls it — in the wake of backlash over his party’s massive government spending and expansion that has us careening toward a $14 trillion-dollar debt. The debt is so astronomical and ominous, it has been called a fiscal “cancer” by Erskine Bowles.
Davis writes that it’s time to “hit the reset button and return to the progressive centrist message that worked not just in 2006 and 2008 with Barack Obama’s campaign but really back to 1992, when Bill Clinton was first elected.”
Sorry, Mr. Davis, but policies DO have consequences. As the new Politico poll shows, 61 percent of Americans say the country is on the wrong track. No doubt some voters will swallow this “pivot,” but most won’t be fooled by a nonsensical “progressive centrist message.” The problem we face requires a change in policies, not messaging.
By the way, Mr. Davis is an attorney who, according to this story, “advises clients on crisis management regarding a broad range of public policy and regulatory issues.”
Crisis management indeed.
As Steve Forbes says, capitalism will save us.
