Its not just over policy differences – important as they are – but over the way Democrats govern:
Yesterday I noted the seemingly odd finding by Gallup that more Americans blame Democrats than Republicans or conservatives for the rash of violence that greeted the passage of the reform law.
Now Gallup has released some new numbers that shed a bit of light on this:
Regardless of whether you favored or opposed the health care legislation passed this week, do you think the methods the Democratic leaders in Congress used to get enough votes to pass this legislation — were [they] an abuse of power, or were [they] an appropriate use of power by the party that controls the majority in Congress?
Abuse of power 53%
Appropriate use of power 40%
No opinion 7%
A surprising 58% of independents, too, said Dem tactics constituted an abuse of power.
The back room deals. The serial insults of opponents. The lies about opposition programs. And, finally, the ramming it through on a partisan basis.
People are furious with government – Democrats don’t seem to realize that they were awarded power in 2006 and 2008 because people were angry with the shennanigans of Republicans…they didn’t vote to put in Democrats who would take those shennanigans and put them on steroids. Democrats did have a chance to win a generation of political power – but that would have required honesty and decency.
Two things entirely outside the possible for our current Democratic leadership.
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